7.4.3 - HOW CAN POLYTHEISM AND MONOTHEISM BE RECONCILED?

To enabling the Jiva to get laya in bliss, Baba similarly expressed his approval of use of music. Baba himself in his early days used to dance with tinklets tied to his feet singing rapturously songs of Kabir, some of which undoubtedly referred to the beauty and blissfulness of infinite God. Like Thyagaraja Swamikal, Baba must have enjoyed musical laya. Thyagaraja Swamikal asked,”Is it possible for a man whose mind does not melt with music and merge with laya. Is there any other way to obtain laya and to reach God?” Baba told Rangari that on the night previous to his coming, there was bhajan and music, and all night he was in rapture. Baba said ‘They abused me’.


Most Hindus revelled in meditating on the details of God forms attained laya or mystic absoption. Thyagaraja did the same with the aid of music. Sufi and Christian adorers of God without form also succeed often in merging their selves in rapt communion with God. Both these groups of mystics show that concentration in the end gives the longed for bliss of God and is the way to reconcile all religious differences. Baba as the pastmaster of mystic bliss and lord of siddhis or psychic powers flowing from mystic concentration helped on the reconciliation of these apparently conflicting faiths of Polytheism and Montheism.