ABSTRACT
The external worship of images has been described in all our Shastras as the lowest of all the low forms of worship. Despite the many iniquities that have found entrance into the practices of image-worship as it is in vogue now, the author does not condemn it. It has become a trite saying that idolatry is wrong, and every man swallows it at the present time without questioning. The author once thought so, and to pay the penalty of that he had to learn his lesson sitting at the feet of a man who realized everything through idols; he alludes to Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. If such Ramakrishna Paramahamsas are produced by idol-worship, what will one have – the reformer's creed or any number of idols? If God comes in the form of a dove, it is holy. But if He comes in the form of a cow, it is heathen superstition; condemn it! That is how the world goes.
