Continued from Verse Seven
8. Under whatever name and form one may worship the Absolute Reality, it is only a means for realizing It without name and form. That alone is true realization wherein one knows oneself in relation to that Reality, attains peace and realizes one's identity with it.
Commentary: Reality or Perfection can be known under many names and forms, but these are only tools for getting beyond those names and forms. We’re looking for a perfection beyond limits, and names and forms are inevitably limits and boundaries. The only spiritual realization worth having is to pass beyond the prison of name and form and recognize your identity with the formless, into which your identity dissolves like a drop of water into the ocean. Or, to be more precise, where you recognize that you never were that drop of water in the first place. This alone brings real, lasting peace.
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