Passage 4

In English

Any person who has an attachment to this human body cannot easily understand the unmanifested God. The human form of one’s own body will always be wanting to perceive God in a manifested form, preferably resembling his own. We generally get the opportunity to recognise the unmanifested aspect of God only through a manifested form. gives you the sacred opportunity by which you can understand the unmanifested God. The purpose of is to teach us the sanctity of the inner . In order that we may have some vision of the inner , has been teaching us in the form of three steps. These are , and . The first one - - recognises God in all people who have a form and a name. This aspect has been described to us as the “ of ” in . It has been referred to as the “” or the manifestation of God in the form of creation. The meaning of this was also taught by to when the former was lying on the bed of arrows. The demonstrates that the entire creation is in fact an aspect of . tells us that is present in all forms of creation, at all times and in all places. We may say that this path is an easy path to follow for ordinary human beings. Since God is present in all living forms, it enables us to regard every human being as some form of God.