SLOKA OF THE DAY:

Bhagavad Gita As It Is -
Chapter 9 Text 15
jnana-yajnena capy an ye
yajanto mam upasate
ekatvena prthaktvena
bahudha visvato-mukham

jnana-yajnena--by cultivation of knowledge; ca--also; api--certainly; anye--others; yajantah--sacrificing; mam--Me; upasate--worship; ekatvena--in oneness; prthaktvena--in duality; bahudha--in diversity; visvatah-mukham--and in the universal form.

TRANSLATION

Others, who engage in sacrifice by the cultivation of knowledge, worship the Supreme Lord as the one without a second, as diverse in many, and in the universal form.

JOURNAL:

Here is a description of those "Others", the devotees who worship Krishna in ways that are different than the standard way. In his purport, Srila Prabhupada gives a breakdown of these different ways. He ends by telling us; And the third class includes those who cannot conceive of anything beyond the manifestation of this material universe. They consider the universe to be the supreme organism or entity and worship that. The universe is also a form of the Lord.

This then is our starting point. Can we see God in the world around us? If so than we have begun the process of realization that will lead us to knowing Him in truth. Yet, some get stuck right here at the beginning. Instead of using this realization as a springboard to the next step (realization of the Paramatma) they fixate on nature worship. This, of course, is better than no belief in God at all.