How is scripture a window to God?
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so what exactly do we mean when we say that scripture is like a window to god a window is something which enables us to see what is outside so if you consider a person who is in some kind of confinement jail or dungeon there is just one window through that window a person can see a glimpse of the large world that is there outside similarly for us the material world is often called a prison and in this prison like material world we are all trapped so Krishna Krishna is completely spiritual so he is not accessible to us at the material level especially when we are in material consciousness so how can people see him so it is scripture that acts like a window through scripture we can learn to see the transcendent in the immanent we can see the transcendental law in his manifestations in this world so at one level we can say that as long as we have a material body and we have material conditions we will not be able to see the spiritual reality but still we can see we can see the spiritual as it is manifested at the material level so when we talk about the eyes to see God it can be it can also be so become gradually purified our love for Krishna becomes awakened it will come at that time can come now also so the more we study scripture the more we get the eyes by which we can see God so the window by which we can see we can sense the higher reality beyond the material reality so when we study scripture we are not literally going out of the material world physically we are still in the material world just like a person who is in a closed room is still inside that room when that person is looking out of the window and that person is seeing the Lord which is which is otherwise not visible so like that scripture gives us access to the world that is not perceivable to us by our senses this access it gives us through the medium of providing us Jnana Chakshu so in that sense the window helps us to see something which is not otherwise visible so scripture helps us to perceive God and to help us sense more and more that there is something spiritual beyond what we see on a daily basis in the world of the senses so we learn to see beyond the world of the senses to the spiritual level through scripture in that sense scripture is a window for a window towards seeing God