Nirankar (Formless God)

You may believe in a God with form or a formless God, but your faith must be genuine and complete. It is through faith alone that one achieves everything.

No one has grasped Him above, below, in the middle, or across. Of Him whose name is great glory, there is no image.

He has no master in the world, no ruler, no distinguishing mark. He is the cause, the lord of lords of instruments. None has begotten Him, nor does any rule over Him.

Kabir would say, 'The God with form is my Mother, and the formless God is my Father. Who should I blame or worship? Both sides of the scale are equal.'

Upon realizing the Atman, which is soundless, intangible, formless, imperishable, tasteless, eternal, and odorless, and realizing that which has no beginning or end, beyond the great and unchanging, one is liberated from the cycle of death.

My Divine Mother is not only formless, but she also has forms. One can see her forms and behold her incomparable beauty through feelings and love.

You saints, however, must wish for the welfare of all. This feeling takes root in the heart only when we see the image of the Formless One - God, in each and every human being.

He, the divine and formless Spirit, is both the outer and inner. He is the Unborn, beyond life and mind, and is luminous.

The Lord, who is beyond time, unchanging, unborn, attributeless, nameless, and formless, creates various forms for the sake of devotees.

The Vedas justify it in this way: they have sung the glory of remembering the Lord, who is one, desireless, formless, nameless, and unborn, and who is Truth, Consciousness, and Bliss, the supreme effulgence, all-pervading, and all-formed.

In this state of the universe, the supreme being emerges from Tamas, known as Hari, who is eternal and unchanging. Hari is the combination of attributes such as omnipotence, belonging to Narayana. He is indestructible, immortal, without senses, inconceivable, and unborn. He is the embodiment of truth, filled with compassion, and has the form of existence that is associated with the gem Chintamani. He inspires various inclinations in different directions, is free from hostility, deterioration, mortality, and decay, and is formless and all-pervading. He is also endowed with the principle of universal creation and eternity without beginning, middle, or end.

As Christ says, no one can serve two masters. Therefore, the memory cannot be united with both God and various forms of knowledge. Since God has no form or image that can be comprehended by the memory, when the memory is united with God, it remains without form or figure, losing its imagination and becoming absorbed in a supreme reality.

You are always safe, formless one.

The mind is absorbed in meditation. The Lord's power is beyond thought. I am not worthy to be sacrificed to You even once. Whatever pleases You is good. You are always in bliss, O Formless One.

The Absolute exists in two forms: Being and Becoming. Being is the fundamental reality, while Becoming is an effective reality, a dynamic power that works out the Being through creative energy, resulting in a constantly changing yet persistent form and process that stems from its immutable, formless essence.

It is self-evident that the Absolute cannot be limited, neither by formlessness nor by form, neither by unity nor by multiplicity, neither by immobility nor by dynamic mobility.

It is the inherent indeterminability of the Absolute that manifests in our consciousness through the fundamental negating aspects of our spiritual experience, such as the unchanging Self, the Nirguna Brahman, the Eternal without qualities, and the pure, featureless One Existence.

A purely impersonal existence and consciousness are true and possible, but also entirely personal consciousness and existence. The Impersonal Divine, Nirguna Brahman, and the Personal Divine, Saguna Brahman, are equal and coexistent aspects of the Eternal.

The divine soul, in its extension, manifests the potentialities of the One. This includes the word or name emerging from the silent unknown, the form realizing the formless essence, the active will or power arising from the tranquil force, and the joy and love that forever flow from the eternal, still delight.

Hinduism gradually guides seekers from physical representations to mental images, from diverse mental images to the one personal God, and from the personal God to the impersonal absolute or the transcendental nirguna Brahman.