What is the significance of worshipping God as Hiranyagarbha? Bhagawan explains to us the profound significance! The mind that does not know God is a dry leaf, rising with every gust of wind, and falling when it subsides. But, the mind fixed in the awareness of God is like a rock, unaffected by doubt, stable and secure. God, as amenable to worship and contemplation, is referred to as Hiranyagarbha - Golden Womb, the Origin of Creation, the Immanent Principle that has willed to become manifest and multiply. The term gold is appropriate, for gold is the metal from which multifarious jewels are shaped by craftsmen, to suit the needs, fancy, foibles and fashions of its wearers. God too is shaped by human imagination, inclination and intellect into various forms, grand or grotesque, frightening or charming. Man erects these images, and pours out before them, his fears, fancies, desires, dreads and dreams. He accepts them as masters, comrades, monarchs, teachers, as the moment dictates. But whatever man may do with God, God is unaffected. He is Gold, which subsists in and through all the jewels.