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HINDU RITUALS AND MYTHS |
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Hindu religious
philosophy simply utilizes the traditional stories for popular teaching. It utilizes, for
instance, the several forms of the Divine to which the national imagination has clung for
ages as stepping-stones to the highest Reality. The Avatar of the Bhagavad Gita makes this
point very clear. He says:-
"whatever may be the form Which each devotee seeks to worship with faith-in that form
alone do I make his faith steadfast. "Possessed of faith, he worships that form, and his desires are fulfilled, granted,
in fact, by me alone. "But finite is the result gained by these men of small minds.
Those who sacrifice to the gods go to the gods,, those who worship me come to me. "Not knowing my supreme nature
immutable and transcendent, ignorant men think that I, the Unmanifest, am endowed with a
manifest form. "Veiled by my divine power I am not revealed to all. This
deluded world knows me not as the unborn and the eternal."
In this passage we see how provides room for the lowest a s well as the highest
minds and how it utilizes traditional, mythology for its purpose. |
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