Some people ask, "How are we to believe in God when we have no notion of His form?" This is sheer folly. Here is a flower. It has a form but the fragrance emanating from it has no form. Can you deny the reality of the fragrance because it has no form? Fragrance has a form, but that form is manifested in the flower.
Take, for instance, PREMA (love). What is the form of love? Is it your fault if you do not recognize its form? Love has a form derived from the persons who exhibit love. Without someone expressing love, love cannot exist, just as fragrance cannot exist without a flower. So, in these examples, we can see the inextricable relationship between what appears to be formless and the source of its form.
To take another example : here is a person whose form can be described in terms of various physical features. But does this description in terms of height and weight reveal anything about his internal qualities like forbearance, peacefulness, compassion, love and sacrifice? Are not these qualities very real and significant? He is prized mainly for these qualities, not for his physical features. To judge him only in physical terms is meaningless. His formless virtues are more important. When one is judged in respect of his qualities, the form is irrelevant.
Those who judge anything on the basis of the external form are utterly foolish. No purpose is served by trying to explain to a blind person the nature of something he cannot see. Likewise, how can anyone speak about God to a person who has no intimacy with the Divine or yearning for God?
(Sanathana Sarathi, April 1997, pg 88)
