The Devotee's passion is to see his Chosen God as the Ultimate and God Almighty of the universe. The Jnani's passion is to merge in the Ultimate. Both ways are seeing the same thing from different perspectives, provided, you don't get sabotaged by fanaticism or snobbery of intellectualism.
If by becoming narrow in your chosen devotion, you become more spiritual, then your narrowness is blessed. If by becoming more universal and more abstract in your inner most mind, you go nearer to the Ultimate Soul, then your universal and abstract outlook is blessed. What matters is, are you going towards the Centre?
If the circumference takes you towards the centre, then it serves its central Soul. If the radii take you away from the Centre, then the radius is wretched. But Hinduism is a Beautiful Circle. The radii never take you away. And the circumference never makes you dry.
Did I say a beautiful circle? Yes, and more than that, an enchanting spiral and an engulfing spherical. An expert artist is fond of free variations of his tunes. Never is he content in striking a mono chord. The God of the Hindus is highly aesthetic.
Art seems to be Its passion. It rejoices in the sight of the ardent soul. It comes unseen as the abstract vastness.
It hides Itself in the heart as the possessing Love.
Treading the solo path, the soul takes to wings every now and then. To arrest it in any single walk may become an injustice to the Infinite. To feign a vastness where you have to feel pangs of Love may be an act of deserting the Centre.
Who knows which soul is in what delicate equilibrium of spiritual growth?
It is this mystical humility, the real concern imbued with spiritual expectation, that is at the heart of all the systems and paths of Hinduism.
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