- God may be infinite, but if He wills, His essence can manifest in man – and it does. That He incarnates Himself cannot be explained by any analogy. One has to experience it.
- If you touch the horn of a cow, you have touched the cow. And if you touch its foot or tail, you have still touched the cow. But for us the principal thing is the cow’s milk, and that comes from the udder. In the same way, God assumes a human body from time to time and appears on earth to teach us ecstatic love and devotion.
- Who can comprehend God fully? One can not know any aspect of God, either the whole or a part. And what need is there to know Him fully? It is enough to have a vision of God. Seeing His incarnation is seeing Him. If somebody goes to the Ganges and touches its water and says, ‘I have seen and touched the Ganges,’ it doesn’t mean that he had to touch the whole of the Ganges from Hardwar to Gangasagar with his hand.
- The element of fire is more in wood. If you are looking for the essence of God, you have to find it in man. God is more manifest in man.
- God is indeed present, but then His power manifests more in some than in others. His power manifests more in an incarnation. Sometimes this power exists in its fullness. It is Shakti that becomes the incarnation of God.
- God incarnates, assuming a human body. He is certainly present in all places, in all things, but man’s desire for God is not fulfilled unless God incarnates in a human form. If you touch a cow anywhere on its body, you have touched the cow. Even if you touch its horn, you have touched the cow. But you can take milk only from its udder.