Allah has a spiritual form
Lillahil Masalul ‘Ala:
“Allah’s is the Sublime Similitude.”
(The Qur’an 16.60)
Shree Chaitanya Mahaprabhu said, “According to the Holy Qur’an, the Lord has a supreme, blissful, spiritual form.”
(Chaitanya-charitamrita, Madhya-lila, 18.191)
Now Mahaprabhu begins discussing Allah’s form. Mahaprabhu emphatically said spiritual form, when he said “form”. Saying that Allah has spiritual form is as good as saying that Allah is formless, because Allah has nothing to do with forms of this temporary illusory world. That Allah is formless means that He has no form which resembles the temporary forms of this world subjected to birth, disease, old age and death. Since Allah is eternal, unlimited, has neither beginning nor end, was never born and is deathless, how can He have a material form? Therefore Allah has a spiritual form which is perfect, unmanifest, unseen and inconceivable.The understanding that Allah has a spiritual form is a better understanding.Considering Allah formless is, to say the least, an inferior thought. Since the statement that Allah has no form deprives Him of something which even the lower creatures have, such a statement is offensive. Therefore the most perfect understanding is that Allah has a form which is absolutely spiritual and has little to do with any material form whatsoever.
Let us see if there are any verses in the Holy Qur’an which support this statement of Shree Chaitanya.
