In some mantras like Dvaya mantra and also in some photos, one is shown God's feet as a place to take refuge at. It hurts people's ego to bow down (including mine). If treating another as an equal itself is difficult in this world, what about bowing down? I want to share a meaning of it which removes a warped idea of what it means. I will also be using only an allegory but this atleast may be perceived as less threatening to the ego.
God is a limitless ocean of love. People suffer because they have come out of the ocean, like fishes that have jumped out into the land. I have seen in TV in the Discovery channel or National Geographic channel that some whales do come out to the land like this and struggle to get back in. Atleast for those fishes, they are near the shore but we humans have come out far outside. Anyway, what is the maximum that the fish can do to get back in? It can just hip hop or crawl to the shoreline and expect that the wave will take it back deep inside into the ocean. What is the feet of God? It is the shoreline. What is God's arms, face etc.? It's said that no one can ever know those things because those are deep inside the ocean. Can anyone really measure infinity? The only thing accessible to humans in this world is God's feet i.e. the shoreline that separates the spiritual life from the material life.
God is a limitless ocean of love. People suffer because they have come out of the ocean, like fishes that have jumped out into the land. I have seen in TV in the Discovery channel or National Geographic channel that some whales do come out to the land like this and struggle to get back in. Atleast for those fishes, they are near the shore but we humans have come out far outside. Anyway, what is the maximum that the fish can do to get back in? It can just hip hop or crawl to the shoreline and expect that the wave will take it back deep inside into the ocean. What is the feet of God? It is the shoreline. What is God's arms, face etc.? It's said that no one can ever know those things because those are deep inside the ocean. Can anyone really measure infinity? The only thing accessible to humans in this world is God's feet i.e. the shoreline that separates the spiritual life from the material life.
