IDOL? NO, NO, HARDLY SO ... 1
The God we worship is necessarily a finite friend of ours, a protective beloved, a benevolent master or even a defenceless baby who can but receive our love and tending. Philosophical rationalisation leading to establishing the infinitude of God becomes a puerile exercise before the all-consuming love of the soul for the Oversoul. Thus have the Hindus, despite possessing the grandest of philosophies that categorically establishes the infinitude of the Divine, nonetheless delight in the sport of spiritual love with a being reduced to their size in the deity, in the idol and in the ideal minimised to their stature but possessed of all the virtues in all their exalted order of excellence. And this is the reason why the Hindu worships his God or Goddess in the image come alive in his purified conception and selfless love.
Written by Sugata Bose
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