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and is present, the splendor necessary for that attainment, and the power capable of granting it, are naturally and surely obtained. O readers: though ordinary gurus are many, there exists another kind of guru, far loftier and more excellent than they — these are none other than the incarnations of Īśvara. By mere will alone, they can give and impart spiritual strength to others. By their command, even the lowest of the low can, in a single instant, become perfected in Jñāna. They are the guru of all gurus, the supreme limit of God's own human form. Human beings cannot see God except in human form. That worshipping them alone is the duty of human beings — this the Paramartha Vahini has taught again and again. Except in the forms of human incarnations, no human being whatsoever can truly behold Īśvara. If human beings attempt to behold the divine in any other way, they will only fashion for themselves some exceedingly distorted shape, but they cannot behold his true form directly. However hard they may try, human beings cannot conceive of God except in human form. One may deliver the most wonderful scientific discourses on God and on every existing thing in the universe; one may earn great renown for logical brilliance; one may prove to one's own satisfaction that all the tales of God's having taken human incarnations are meaningless ravings, and thereby feel content. But if we examine it, even a little, with ordinary insight, and ask ourselves to what degree this wondrous intellect actually rests upon true knowledge, we shall find there nothing but emptiness — mere foam.