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We cannot restrict God, that "He cannot be like this. He cannot come here. He cannot take any shape." No. He is not under my restriction. Then how God is great? If I put God under my restricted knowledge or limited knowledge, then God becomes under my understanding. But the Vedic language says, avan mānasa-gocaraḥ. He's beyond the expression of words. He is beyond the conception of mind.
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So whenever in the scripture it is said that God is without form, that means He has no form which we have got experience. But He has got form. Just the same example. When you cannot measure, you say a point has no length, no breadth. But actually, it is not a fact. The point has length and breadth. We have no instrument to measure it, that's all. Similarly, when as soon as we say "form," we understand this form. Just like I am seeing your form, you are seeing my form. So we understand that God may be a form, and because God also comes in this form also. Just like in ''Bhagavad-gītā'' it is said, ''avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam'': ([[Vanisource:BG 9.11 (1972)|BG 9.11]]) "Because I have come in the form of a(an) ordinary human being, they are deriding: 'How He can be God?' " So many scholars, so many philosophers, they deny to accept Kṛṣṇa, God. Why? Because He appears to be just like you and me, a human being. But God can appear in any way because He is all-powerful. He sometimes appears as fish; sometimes He appears as tortoise; sometimes He appears like a boar; sometimes He appears half-lion, half-man. Similarly sometimes He appears man, sometimes He appears as woman.

So we cannot restrict God that, "He cannot be like this. He cannot come here. He cannot take any shape." No. He is not under my restriction. Then how God is great? If I put God under my restricted knowledge or limited knowledge, then God becomes under my understanding. But the Vedic language says, ''avan mānasa-gocaraḥ''. He's beyond the expression of words. He is beyond the conception of mind. He is greatest of the great, and the smallest of the small. How He's the smallest of the . . . we are also, because we are spirit spark. Now, do we know what is our measurement? That we can find in the ''śāstra''. I have several times mentioned that one ten-thousandth part of the tip of your hair is the measurement of the soul. Now you have no instrument. You cannot measure even the tip of your hair, and what to speak of one-thou . . . ten-thousandth part of it. Impossible. Therefore because you cannot find out by dissecting this body where is that spirit spark . . . there is, but your present eyes cannot find it out. Therefore you say ''nirākāra'', or no form. But actually, it has form.

We get information from the ''śāstras''. Just like we get complete information of the sun globe from geography or from authoritative sources, scientist, astrologer, astronomer, mathematician, so similarly, you can get information what is the form of individual soul, what is the form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. They are there. But His form is not like your form or my form. The ''Brahma-saṁhitā'' says, ''sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha'' (BS 5.30). His form is full of bliss, and full of knowledge, and eternal. But this body, this body, our body, is neither eternal, neither full of knowledge, neither blissful. So we can distinguish what is the form of God. ''Sac-cid-ānanda''. ''Sat''. ''Sat'' means eternal, cit means full of knowledge, and ''ānanda'' means full of blissfulness.
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