Visualize Worship

A sage had many followers and there always used to be someone with him at all times. Among his followers was a young disciple. This young man was not very educated and he never spoke much. Everyone would bathe daily and on time. But this young man never took his bath on time. But he chanted the holy name all the time.

One day he had a really bad case of the cold. The sage advised that in order to take care of his health, he should just take a single dip in the nearby river and not take long baths. The young man agreed and kept quiet. None of the others present could make out what the conversation had been about.

Every morning after waking up, the young man would visualize himself in the holy city of ‘Kashi’ taking dips in the holy river ‘Ganges’. After this he would visualize himself offering prayers to his Gurudev. His visualization was so vivid and accurate that he gave himself a cold because of the cold waters of the ‘Ganges’.
Worship of the Lord in visualization is greatly loved by the Lord himself. Every devotee must regularly offer prayers this way. Even the Lord gets used to this form of worship and if the devotee happens to forget, the Lord will arrange for the devotee to be reminded. It is effective in awakening the feeling that the Lord resides in our heart. Thinking of the Lord in a living form always would firmly seat him in our heart and then one day he would appear to us in person. This is the best king of association with the Lord.