Die-hard habits of thought

Certain habits of thought do not disappear quickly from a frame of mind used to western perspective for long. Monotheism, God's wrath over any lack of exclusive devotion of human beings and a linear concept of one-time living are perhaps traces which are die-hard. I was reading a poem by Aldous Huxley, which talks about the doors of the Temple. Very similar and most possibly inspired by Sri Ramakrishna's teachings AH writes beautifully 

"Many are the doors of the spirit that lead
Into the inmost shrine:
And I count the gates of the temple divine,
Since the god of the place is God indeed.
And these are the gates that God decreed
Should lead to his house"
But in the end, see this spurting out! -
"But he that worships the gates alone,
Forgetting the shrine beyond, shall see
The great valves open suddenly,
Revealing, not God's radiant throne,
But the fires of wrath and agony." 

The concept of the world distanced from Divinity and the concept of Divinity always sitting in furious judgement over human choices and distractions are habits of thought slow to disappear it seems.
But when we come to Sri Krishna in Srimad Bhagavad Gita, he says: 

"Whatever devotee seeks to worship whatsoever form with śraddhā, that same śraddhā of his do I make unflinching.
Endued with that śraddhā, he engages in the worship of that, and from it, gains his desires - these being verily dispensed by Me alone." (slokas 21, 22 Adhyaya VII, tr Sri C V Ramachandra Iyer, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Sri Sankara's Gita Bhashya, 1988) 

Hindu consciousness has been imbued with salient thoughts of Divine transcendence and immanence with regard to the world. The universal attitude of HInduism is born out of this consciousness.
Srirangam Mohanarangan
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