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Question: How to Defeat the Argument that God is Formless?

Please accept my humble obeisances

How to defeat the argument when some one says that God is formless and quotes the Vedic mantra:

na tasya pratima asti
(Yajur Veda 32-3)

Your humble student.

Supreet
 

Answer: Forms Do Not Arise from Formlessness

We have no experience of forms arising from formlessness. Rather everywhere around us we see that forms arise from forms. Just like you have form and your father also has a form. Forms arising from formlessness is a dogmatic concept which does not tally with reason and logic. 

The Vedas do not state that God is formless. What they do state is that God does not have a material form. This verse does not say that God is formless. Rather it describes that God's form has no duplicate or likeness (pratima) in this world. In other words, there is no form in this world which is equal to the transcendental form of Lord Sri Krishna.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari