11. ye yaThaa maam prapadhyanthe thaan thaTha eva
bajaamyaham
mama varthmaa anuvarthanthe manushyaaH paarTha
sarvaSaH
Who ever approaches me in whatever manner I show my favour to them in the same manner. People proceed along the path only in all respects.
In whatever form one seeks the Lord, He appears in the same form to the devotee. The criticism of Hinduism being pantheistic is proved wrong by this. There is only one God who can be called by any name or conceived in any form, provided the worshipper remembers that He is not limited to that name or form. The Lord who is everywhere, in and out of all being is naturally present also in the particular form in which one thinks of Him. So
Not only the different forms of the Lord, Rama ,
The Brahman, the supreme reality is the inner self of all and the power behind all actions of all beings sentient or insentient. The electricity is everywhere but comes through each instrument in that particular form and for that particular function. When the instrument is switched off the electricity is still there but unmanifest. Similarly in some, the divinity is manifest and in others it is dormant and hidden by ignorance of different degrees
"All follow my path only," may create a doubt whether even the evildoers follow the path of the Lord. It is like this. To go up a mountain, the path appears sometimes to go downhill but eventually it leads you to the top. Once started on the journey of life one has to go through the path chosen by the karma and sometimes it takes one away from the Lord but still it is a journey uphill only. One can reach a destination quickly by air or more slowly by other transport or one could take a circuitous route not knowing where to go. But like the mountainous path it goes one way only and finally you have to reach the top. All act only for the sake of attaining happiness , including the wicked, and the real happiness comes only on attaining the Supreme, the brahmananda. The embodied soul will not rest till he reaches there.
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