[Advaita-l] The 'Snake-and-ladder' game - The Spiritual path

[Kalyan]

//The word Indra when presented as an object of worship by the veda means
saguNa Brahman. Kavya kantha ganapathi muni even compiled an Indra
sahasranamam. This refers not to a venal Indra but to Saguna brahma himself.//
Whether you accept it or not, Indra of scriptures is not the most ideal character.//Also questions such as Indra did so many horrible  deeds etc., or Krishna
played with so many Gopis and is yet worshipped, are all standard questions
of missionary propaganda and already answered by the vedic scholars in
various ways.//
Every religion has its own apologists. That cannot change facts.
//We also have 'yah shAstra vidhimutsrRjya karma kartum ihArhasi...' in BhagavadGita  placing clearrestrictions on the ways in which such diverse forms of worship are
permissible.//
So it looks like Ishwara cannot take the form of Jesus, after all.
//If I go along with your thinking (i do understand you are only being
hypothetical) , its tantamount to suggesting that even a terrorist yelling
'Allah is great' and downing a plane is doing 'worship' and it too is
permissible because 'advaita allows different forms of worship'?//
Sorry the discussion here was never about different forms of worship. It was about worship of different forms.