... Body. To look upon God as a man is not mere anthropomorphism. But in the Vaishnava doctrine prominence, almost an exclusive stress, has been given to the supraphysical conscious form of the body, cinmaya deha. We go further and bring to the fore even this earthly material human body and have faith in its divine fulfilment. Page 279 ...
... visioned as the privilege of celestial beings and not possible as the physical residence of a soul still bound to terrestrial nature. The Vaishnavas have spoken of a spiritualised conscious body, cinmaya deha ; there has been the conception of a radiant or luminous body, which might be the Vedic jyotirmaya deha . A light has been seen by some radiating from the bodies of highly developed spiritual persons ...
... visioned as the privilege of celestial beings and not possible as the physical residence of a soul still bound to terrestrial nature. The Vaishnavas have spoken of a spiritualised conscious body, cinmaya deha ; there has been the conception of a radiant or luminous body, which might be the Vedic jotirmaya deha. A light has been seen by some radiating from the bodies of highly developed spiritual persons ...
... aim, in contradistinction to the attempts mentioned in the foregoing chapter, the creation of a divine body, here in the conditions of earth and matter. It does not want to be contented with a cinmaya deha, or transcendental body, as in the case of the Vaishnavas, nor with the possession of a post-mortem 'pneumatic' body of Pauline conception. For, this Yoga aims not at a release from embodied ...
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