The influence of Christianity and Islam led to the conflicting questions of the Transcendental and Immanent nature of God as we worship. Is He part of us and can we reach His level or is He to be worshipped with devotion to reach His feet only? Many leaders like Swami Vivekananda, Arabindo, Ramana Maharishi and Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan analyzed and gave us the answer. Most modern day leaders insisted on the Vedantha Philosophy of Adhvaitha, though they accepted the devotional worship of Bhakthi schools.

The greatest Philosopher of this century, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, past President of India, explains the true nature of the Supreme God and the human Spirit very well. "The Divine is both in us and out of us. God is neither completely transcendent nor completely immanent. He is divine darkness as well as 'unencompassed light.' The philosophers with their passion for unity emphasize the immanent aspect, that there is no barrier dividing man from the real. Those who emphasize the Transcendence of the Supreme to the human insist on the specifically religious consciousness, of communion with a higher than ourselves with whom it is impossible for the individual to get assimilated." [This is seen both in Eastern and Western Faiths]

"There cannot be a fundamental contradiction between the philosophical idea of God as an all-embracing spirit and the devotional idea of a personal God who arouses in us the specifically religious emotion. The personal conception develops the aspect of spiritual experience in which it may be regarded as fulfilling the human needs. God is represented as possessing the qualities we lack. Justice, love and holiness are the highest qualities we know and we imagine God as possessing them, though these qualities exist in God in a different sense from their existence in us. The difference between the Supreme as spirit and Supreme as person is one of standpoint and not of essence, between God as He is and as he seems to us."