Passage 11

In English

There is a small example for this. When one enters the elementary class, one learns the alphabets: A, B, C, D. Thereafter, one tries to combine these letters into words. The twenty-six letters can thus be grouped to form different words. When we undertake to compose one word God, we have to group three of the existing twenty-six letters to form the required word. There is a very subtle aspect which we have to comprehend fully here. In forming this word God, we must ask ourselves whether we have used the letters which already exist in the language or whether we have used a new alphabet in forming this word God. When we look at this with some care, we realise that our effort was only in picking up some letters and making them into a word like God. Taking the words , , , we see that we are taking them out of the , and by grouping them together we form another manthra.