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Loya-11: Beliefs of a Holy and Unholy Person

Summary

1. Understanding of an unholy person adopted from the holy scriptures:

1. The male and female forms in the world are manifestations of God Himself; therefore, by meditating on those forms one attains instantaneous samādhi.
2. If one perceives flaws in those forms, then one should believe that form to be Brahma and refute the perception of those flaws.
3. The fruit of this type of understanding is the dismal regions of narak and the cycle of births and deaths.

2. Understanding of a holy person adopted from the holy scriptures:

1. One should not meditate on deities such as Brahma, etc. nor meditate on the previous avatārs.
2. One should meditate on the manifest form of God one has attained and maintain faithfulness [fidelity like that of a faithful wife] to that form.
3. One should consider the human form of God equal to the divine form of God in His abode.
4. The place where the manifest God resides is Akshardhām.
5. One should perceive the devotees of the manifest form of God equal to the attendants of God’s abode.

3. One should only hear the sacred scriptures from a holy person but never from an unholy person.