[Advaita-l] Idol worship question

[Sunil Bhattacharjya]

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 From: Sunil Bhattacharjya <sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com>
To: Rajaram Venkataramani <rajaramvenk at gmail.com> 
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 5:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Idol worship question
 

Lord Krishna says that in Uttara Gita



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 From: Rajaram Venkataramani <rajaramvenk at gmail.com>
To: Sunil Bhattacharjya <sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com>; A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2012 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Idol worship question
 

Where does Krishna say that?

Also, are the forms prescribed by sastras not superior to any we choose?

On Wednesday, December 26, 2012, Sunil Bhattacharjya  wrote:

Namaste,
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>Lord Krishna said "Pratima alpabuddhinam, sarvatra samadarshinam"
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>Pratima worship is for the beginners. The advanced sadhakas see god everywhere. There is a story about one saint in Maharashtra. Once the saint was preparing his chapati / roti and one dog suddenly came near him and took away his chapati. The he ran after the dog like a mad man and he also carried a pot of ghee / toop with him. He was shouting  and telling the dog "O' Lord please don't take the dry chapati. Let me apply some ghee in it".
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