ABSTRACT
The man of knowledge seeks the undifferentiated and unchanging Supreme Reality as it is in itself, beyond all attributes, while the man of devotion seeks God, a Personal Being endowed with all attributes in their perfection. The man of knowledge is inclined to believe that it is he who knows the truth in its purity, because attributes are only a human way of clothing the conceptually inconceivable with definite characteristics, so that it becomes thinkable within the limitations of the human mind. The religious impulse behind monotheistic perception is different from that of polytheism, non-dualism and Yogic perfectionism, all to be found in the Hindu tradition. Devotionalism, as a characteristic approach to religious reality, is a specific human need and, as Krishna says in the Gita , love and devotion to a personal God is the most easily acceptable and workable of all paths to the divine.
