Image of God ???

“We may worship anything by seeing God in it, if we can forget the idol and see God there. We must not project any image upon God. But we may fill any image with that Life which is God. Only forget the image, and you are right enough — for “out of Him comes everything”. He is everything. We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture as God is wrong. God in the image is perfectly right. There is no danger there. This is the real worship of God.

Two sorts of persons never require any image – the human animal who never thinks of any religion, and the perfected being who has passed through these stages. Between these two points all of us require some sort of ideal, outside and inside.”

~ Swami Vivekananda
(CW/V4/Addresses on Bhakti-Yoga/The Chief Symbols)

♦️ Artist: Avik Ranjan Ghosh