The Forms of Paramatma

Paramatma's Multitude of Forms

Paramatma is the First Aspect of God. The reason that Paramatma is categorized as the First Aspect is because when the dawn of faith rises in a devotee he first learns to relate to God in form; or if form is forbidden in a religion, then a symbol. The other two Aspects of God are more abstract to understand, therefore generally more difficult for a devotee to relate to in the early stages of spiritual evolution.

This is true for all religions, even if the religion strongly prohibits its devotees from worshipping any depiction of God. For instance in Islam, where assosciating God with form is blasphemy, symbolic form is nevertheless used to help with devotion. For instance the Ka'abah and the Arabic font rendition of the word Allah. Even in Buddhism, where Buddha's teachings which are purely monistic does not even acknowledge God with personality, cannot escape from the worship of form. Buddhist devotees use the figure of Buddha to represent divinity. 

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