09/05/07 The power chooses the person into whom it enters, man is God
Bhagavan said:
We say we are giving birth to a child, but in a practical sense, the child comes out from the womb of the mother. If the child does not want to come out, then you have no power to give birth to him or her. Furthermore, the power chooses the person into whom it enters. It is not to the merit of the person into whom it enters, as that person may have little. Therefore, you do not have the power to get the Knowledge of the Supreme until He wants to give it to you. You simply surrender yourself.
I am like the searchlight in an airport whose light shines not only on India, but onto the whole world. If you see the light, you can advance towards it until you discover its source.
Only a human being can become God for only a human being has the capacity to go beyond his or her individuality. For this reason we say that man is God.
Commentary by Koji:
Our children do not come from us, but through us. They do not belong to us, but are entrusted to our care. The Divine decides when has come the time for someone to have the opportunity to have the responsibility of looking after one of the children of the Divine, not us.
We should not develop spiritual ego, attached to the thought that the power has entered us because we are very holy, as we are then still operating on the level of the ego, which is an illusion, and we wreck everything in this way. The Truth is that it is the Power that decides who it wants to prepare, who it wants to enter, and everyone will reach the Ultimate some day in some life.
The light of Bhagavan is his love. we need to open the Divine Eye to see this love, then it will guide us to its source, and we will receive the bottle of the perfume of love.
A microcosm, an embodied soul, is Atman, the soul, which is like a sword, in five sheaths. The sheath of alimentation, so-called as it is maintained with food, is the physical body. The subtle body contains the sheaths of prana (vital forces), of the mind, and of the intellect. The causal body is the sheath of bliss, as when it manifests, we experience a reflection of the bliss of Brahman.
Every soul from bacteria to saint has these five sheaths, but more developed beings have more sheaths developed, and can remove them, and therefore they manifest more of the divinity of the Atman. Atman is always the same. The bacterium is as divine as the saint, but the saint manifests his divinity. A plant has the first two developed, but not that of the mind. An animal does have the mental one developed too, but it cannot realise itself, because the intellectual one, as it is not developed, still cannot be removed. A human being does have the intellectual one developed. The sheath of bliss can be removed through doing spiritual practices. Therefore, only man has the opportunity to realise his inherent divinity. If you are divine, but you cannot realise it, it seems the same as if you are not divine. Only man can realise that he is God, and for that reason we say that man is God.
We say we are giving birth to a child, but in a practical sense, the child comes out from the womb of the mother. If the child does not want to come out, then you have no power to give birth to him or her. Furthermore, the power chooses the person into whom it enters. It is not to the merit of the person into whom it enters, as that person may have little. Therefore, you do not have the power to get the Knowledge of the Supreme until He wants to give it to you. You simply surrender yourself.
I am like the searchlight in an airport whose light shines not only on India, but onto the whole world. If you see the light, you can advance towards it until you discover its source.
Only a human being can become God for only a human being has the capacity to go beyond his or her individuality. For this reason we say that man is God.
Commentary by Koji:
Our children do not come from us, but through us. They do not belong to us, but are entrusted to our care. The Divine decides when has come the time for someone to have the opportunity to have the responsibility of looking after one of the children of the Divine, not us.
We should not develop spiritual ego, attached to the thought that the power has entered us because we are very holy, as we are then still operating on the level of the ego, which is an illusion, and we wreck everything in this way. The Truth is that it is the Power that decides who it wants to prepare, who it wants to enter, and everyone will reach the Ultimate some day in some life.
The light of Bhagavan is his love. we need to open the Divine Eye to see this love, then it will guide us to its source, and we will receive the bottle of the perfume of love.
A microcosm, an embodied soul, is Atman, the soul, which is like a sword, in five sheaths. The sheath of alimentation, so-called as it is maintained with food, is the physical body. The subtle body contains the sheaths of prana (vital forces), of the mind, and of the intellect. The causal body is the sheath of bliss, as when it manifests, we experience a reflection of the bliss of Brahman.
Every soul from bacteria to saint has these five sheaths, but more developed beings have more sheaths developed, and can remove them, and therefore they manifest more of the divinity of the Atman. Atman is always the same. The bacterium is as divine as the saint, but the saint manifests his divinity. A plant has the first two developed, but not that of the mind. An animal does have the mental one developed too, but it cannot realise itself, because the intellectual one, as it is not developed, still cannot be removed. A human being does have the intellectual one developed. The sheath of bliss can be removed through doing spiritual practices. Therefore, only man has the opportunity to realise his inherent divinity. If you are divine, but you cannot realise it, it seems the same as if you are not divine. Only man can realise that he is God, and for that reason we say that man is God.
Koji
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