“Tibetan and Chinese Buddhists who say that there are many Buddhas living in spirit bodies and helping our earth from the spiritual world are still in the sphere of religious illusion, not ultimate truth. Their statements are wrong. Every sage realizes that the only way to help mankind is to come down among them, for which he must necessarily take on flesh-body. When people are suffering, how can he relieve their suffering unless he appears among them? When people are suffering, how can he feed them from an unseen world whether their struggle be for material bread or for spiritual truth? No! He must be here actually in the flesh. It is impossible to help them in any other way, and all talk of Shiva living on Mount Kailas in spiritual body or Buddha in Nirmanakaya, invisible body, belongs to the realm of delusion or self-deception.”
~ V. Subrahmanya Iyer, Lights on Advaita: Selected Teachings of V. Subrahmanya Iyer
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