Sage Dattatreya
The Goddess Continued..
Knowledge relating to me is complex but it can be dealt with under the two categories, dual and non-dual, of which the former relates to worship and the latter to realization. On account of their intricacies, there are many details in them leading up to different results. Dual knowledge is manifold because it depends on the concept of duality and manifests as worship, prayer, incantation, meditation, etc., all of which are due to nothing more than mental imagery. Even so, they are efficacious in contradistinction to daydreams, for the law of nature provides for it. There are degrees in the efficacy of the methods, of which the most important concerns the aspect mentioned before. The ultimate goal of all is certainly non-dual realization.
(Commentary: Mental imagery cannot put forth tangible results either directly or in successive stages. But the imagery relating to God differs from ordinary daydreams in that it purifies and strengthens the mind, in order to make it fit to realize the Self. Again, the most efficacious among the concepts of God is the one already mentioned, namely, the eternal couple. Although it will not directly remove ignorance, yet it will help its removal for the resurrection of the man as a full-blown jnani.)
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