Devotee: Has God a form?
Maharshi: Who says so?
D.: Well, if God has no form is it proper to worship idols?
M.: Leave God alone because He is unknown. What about you? Have you a form?
D.: Yes. I am this and so and so.
M.: So then, you are a man with limbs, about three and a half cubits high, with beard, etc. Is it so?
D.: Certainly.
M.: Then do you find yourself so in deep sleep?
D.: After waking I perceive that I was asleep. Therefore by inference I remained thus in deep sleep also.
M.: If you are the body why do they bury the corpse after death? The body must refuse to be buried.
D.: No, I am the subtle jiva within the gross body.
M.: So you see that you are really formless; but you are at present identifying yourself with the body. So long as you are formful why should you not worship the formless God as being formful?
The questioner was baffled and perplexed.
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Likewise throughout "Talks..." you can find numerous occasions where people came to examine Bhagavaan or to prove their -ism was better than Advaitham (Bhagavaan never identified Himself with any religion or group. His teachings were completely based on His experience and not based on any scriptures). Sometimes Bhagavaan brought such people to the right path. Sometimes He would say what they wanted to hear and got rid of them. Sometimes He kept quiet. Sometimes He paid them back in their own coin. When He did pay them back, it was always in a spectacular way!! With just one simple question, He would bring down their entire defensive structures.
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