Perceiving a being as material objects is the same as objectifying them. You don't get the sense of loving intent when you objectify God. Boobies.
What do you mean by 'loving intent'? If you mean that God can't be seen as another object among objects, then I agree - but He might choose to appear in a separate form, as in the Hindu idea of the Avatar.
God's intent. It is not separate from what you sense. If you believe you are only looking at an object, you miss the intent behind your perception of the object.
It seems it's only the same at several removes. In general. sense perception is automatic - it is simply a modification of the lower Parkriti or nature. Gunas acting upon gunas.
One and multiple at the same time. Thing is, it's easier for most peole to see the multiplicity than the Oneness, and so they get caught up in the play and interplay of the multiplicity, and don't see what is behind appearances.
::nods:: The multiplicity is amazing and beautiful (like the multiple people who are all part of the one soul or the multiple aspects of God in Hinduism...or even the multiple paths to God)....but in the end...the one is even more amazing...because when you see how they all interconnect and go back to one....its an amazing thing.
And sometimes someone gets caught up in the oneness and forgets the multiplicity of it all, which is worse.
If you mean that such an exclusive concentration can lead to a kind of anti-life philosophy, 'quietism', or a desire to escape from manifest existence - as I suspect might be the goal of some extreme Buddhist sects and others - I agree. That's why I think Krishna stresses so much in the Gita on the need to act, to be active on the world's stage - but to act in knowlege of the One Being, (even to become the conscious instrument of That) rather than impelled by this or that desire or craving for the results of action.
