Spiritual Forum. Org

You can never worship the absolute God directly
The God is identified with human incarnation

The word Dattatreya is combination of two words i.e., Datta and Aatreya. Datta means the unimaginable God given to devotees through the human incarnation, which is the human form with which God is identified. By this process, the unimaginable God becomes imaginable and visible human being with whom all the spiritual aspirants can clarify their doubts. The word Aatreya comes from Atri meaning that God is not three entities. The three entities are Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. Brahma represents the unimaginable and invisible God. Brahma is said not to have the direct worship.

Since the absolute God is unimaginable, you can never worship the absolute God directly. Shiva represents the invisible but imaginable energy, which is in the form of waves. Shiva is also worshipped in the form of Lingam, which is in the form of a wave. This energy indicates the soul. Vishnu represents the visible and imaginable matter representing body. Vishnu is worshipped in the form of materialized statue. All these three together constitute the human incarnation. All these three components together are taken as one entity only without differentiation. The God is identified with both the soul and body and hence, the human form consisting of both body and soul is taken as God.