2022-04-24 18:02:07
The passage below is taken from the essay
Of Idols and Deities: Coming to Grips with a Misunderstood Form of Worship, and explains, in my humble opinion, quite well what some people refer to as ‘idol worship‘:
‘… the Lord in His archa-murti, or form made of material elements, is not material, for those elements, although separated from the Lord, are also part of the Lord’s energy, as stated in Bhagavad Gita.
Because the elements are the Lord’s own energy and because there is no difference between the energy and the energetic, the Lord can appear through any element.
Just as the sun can act through the sunshine and thus distribute its heat and light, so Krishna, in His inconceivable power, can appear in His original spiritual form in any material element, including stone, wood, paint, gold, silver, and jewels…’
– His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
From my book review of The Agni and Ecstacy.
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