The Jiva/Individual Soul (Surpassing Love And Grace)

When someone says that he took a bath in the same river twice, he is wrong because when he bathed for the second time the river was not the same as it was when he bathed for the first time. On seeing the brightness of a flame, a man says that he sees the same flame, but this flame is changing every moment. The waking state is like this. The stationary appearance is an error of perception.

Reminiscences-II -Dr.T.N.Krishnaswamy (Surpassing Love And Grace)

when he was no longer bodily with us, I turned to his teaching; and then I found that the Grace of his Presence had prepared me for it. I had been attracted to him as a child is to its mother, without knowing why I had derived sustenance from him as a child does from its mother. I was glad afterwards that I had enjoyed his presence when he was bodily with us. The following little incident shows how he himself approved of people worshipping the physical form assumed by the Divine.

Reminiscences-II -Srimat Puragra Parampanthi (Surpassing Love And Grace)

All eyes were fixed on the Maharshi; every soul was raised to a high spiritual level by the nearness and influence of his great personality. I intensely reflected on the unique phenomenon and tried hard to find an answer to this unheard of event. I wanted to know how and by what irresistible force it had been possible for persons – young and old, rich and poor, wise and simple, belonging to different races and religions – to gather at the feet of this great Yogi.