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(murti) of the Gita (Bhagavad Gita) and made an idol of Gayatri
Mata (goddess). They have not left anything alone! You foolish
people! Stop making idols of Gayatri Mata. That is a mantra
(sacred word), the best of the best mantra. And that mantra
has to be recited as a mantra, and not be worshiped in the form
of an idol. The Gita is meant for reading, for studying and
understanding. But instead of that they have made it into an
iconic form (murti), and now they are praying to it. And in
worshiping the Gita, they have forgotten about Lord Krishna.
Lord Krishna has been left behind, and the icon has replaced
him. That is how they have botched things up!
Alas! The entire significance surrounding this has been
lost; the meaning became stamped out! It was meant to lift
people onto a good path. However, when it goes awry, should
you not have to uproot it and discard it? Should you not establish
a new foundation?
By installing these symbols, they have suppressed the
masses. If they had just left it in a scientific way, as it is, what
was wrong with that? Is there anything wrong in it? That they
had to bring Brahmaa, Vishnu and Maheshwar into it.
Questioner: But Dada, it is through imagination that they
have been installed, and that imagination has perpetuated
throughout the years.
Dadashri: And they cannot find the real thing. And so I
discovered it, and now I have started presenting it to people.
Therefore, this is just the circumstance (avastha) of the
elements (tattva) which people have symbolized in this way.
And this was just so that people would not forget. So the way
people interpreted it was that it was these three that ran everything.
Vishnu runs this, so and so runs this! So how many superiors
(uparis) have you placed above you?
Questioner: Three.