In English
The Form and the Formless
Texts on devotion dwell at great length on the worship of the Personal and the Impersonal God, or of the Form-full and the Formless God. This problem too is considered and solved in the . So long as man is afflicted with the delusion that he is the body which contains him and so long as he is attached to it and attracted by it, he cannot conceive the abstract, impersonal and formless entity. Nor can man stay without interruption on the Personal as the ultimate basis. He has need for both the Form and the Formless. They are as the two wings for a bird, the two wheels for the cart and the two legs of the human being. Both are valuable and valid for the devoted seeker, though Personal is not as lasting as the Impersonal. We have now about a thousand in this , with me. When you are back in your own homes and recollect this experience, you reconstruct this situation, this , and the thousand. Since this experience was gained in the wakeful stage, you could recall it into the subtle region of your consciousness, the , whenever and wherever you wish.