62 On the Way to Krgna

There is a class of jrianis called impersonalists who
say that because worshiping the impersonal is too
difficult, a form of God has to be imagined. These
are not real jianis—they’re fools. No one can imagine
the form of God, for God is so great. One may
imagine some form, but that is a concoction; it is
not the real form. There are those who imagine the
form of God, and there are those who deny the form
of God. Neither is a jfiant. Those who imagine the
form are called iconoclasts. During the Hindu-Muslim
riots in India, some Hindus would go to the Moslem
mosque and would break statues and images of God,
and the Moslems would reciprocate in like manner.
In this way they were both thinking, “We've killed
the Hindu God. We’ve killed the Moslem God, etc.”
Similarly, when Gandhi was leading his resistance
movement, many Indians would go to the street and
destroy the mailboxes and in this way think that
they were destroying the government postal service.
People of such mentality are not jrianis. The religious
wars between the Hindus and Moslems and Christians
and non-Christians were all conducted on the basis
of ignorance. One who is in knowledge knows that
God is one; He cannot be Moslem, Hindu or Chris-
tian.

It is our imagination that God is such and such
and such and such. That is all imagination. The real
wise man knows that God is transcendental. One who
knows that God is transcendental to the material
modes truly knows God. God is always beside us,
present in our hearts. When we leave the body, God
also goes with us, and when we take on another
body, He goes with us there just to see what we are
