but if you pray to God, He hears you beyond the idol,

Which is, and not the one that does not exist. God is non-confessional. He did not

belongs to a certain religion, a certain group. He shines equally with light,

He sends His rain on the good and on the evil. He doesn't discriminate, He looks into

the heart of man. A person may err mentally, but pray truly; This is

different things. Here is an example from another field, not Hindu. In the Jewish

literature there is a story about how two Israeli teachers argued on the

some theological topic and differed very violently. And one of them, Shammai,

exclaimed: "Lord, if I have found favor with Thee, let them fall upon us

the walls of this house!" — and the walls began to fall. His interlocutor, Hillel,

says: "If I have found favor with You, O Lord, let the walls

will stop!" And the walls stopped. And then Hillel said to Shammay:

"You see, a miracle proves nothing".166

For God did not perform a miracle to prove that someone's theology is correct

or incorrectly, but because the heart of man belonged entirely to God. And this

The general principle is that a miracle is not a proof. You cannot use a miracle as a

proof of theological calculation. A saint is not necessarily the best

A theologian of his time, but he is a saint.

There is a very interesting story about the old in the "Spiritual Meadow" by John Moschos

a priest who was very pure in heart, very holy in life, but was carried away by the

some heresy of his time. He had a godly man, and more than he,