The petty investigation done by ordinary reason, not fed by wisdom, can help us to perceive only nothingness. When such persons deliver lectures condemning Avatars, and you happen to be present and listening, ask the speaker, "Venerable Sir! Have you understood the meaning of the words omnilocation, omnipotence and omnipresence?" Man is confined to the objective Nature which he contacts through his senses. So he is helpless in understanding these ideas. The speaker does not know about these concepts, any more than the common unlettered man. Though they are ignorant of these vast horizons of thought, speakers of this type create confusion and distress through their teachings.

Spiritual education is, in reality, experience of the Truth, awareness of the Truth. Pleasing oratory should not be mistaken as experiencing the Truth. That experience comes about only in the innermost tabernacle of the self.

As at present created, man is by nature encased and so he can see God only as man. There is no escape. When buffaloes yearn to worship God, limited as they are by the buffalo nature, they can only imagine God as a Cosmic Buffalo. So too, man imagines the Divine Principle as a Cosmic Purusha with human limbs and human qualities.

Man, Buffalo, Fish - these can be compared to vessels or containers. Take it that these vessels proceed to the limitless ocean of Divinity to fill themselves with it. Each can have it only in its own shape and size, isn't it? The man vessel will earn and accept God as having the form of man; the buffalo vessel, as having the form of buffalo; the fish vessel, as having the form of fish. All these vessel-forms contain the identical water of the Ocean of Divinity. When men visualise God, they see God as human. Each imposes on God in its own Form.