Passage 7

In English

The human body is composed of cells which draw strength and life from food; food draws its value from the soil. Soil- food- man - when that cycle is completed, man returns to the soil. The soil is - the food grown out of the soil becomes consciousness, the - and the merges into the consciousness or . A seed germinates within the soil and rises above ground as a sapling. It then puts forth leaves and branches and blossoms. The flowers give place to fruits which ripen and contain seeds which can repeat the process of germination and growth. The soil is the basis of all transformations and developments; if you keep the seeds on your palm and water them, they will not grow. Soil and seed bring about the third entity, the plant. The cells in both have an affinity that is strange. The cells in the soil are its ; the cells in the seeds are its . Soil is the substance of the food out of which man is born, through which man is sustained and nourished. But the body is the temple of the (divinity). Therefore one should not desecrate the body with any evil thought, word or deed. The splendour of the reveals all things, illumines all things. The , however, is Self-Revealing, Self-illumining. It shines everywhere, in all things. In spite of any number of changes, the individual persists. Within the child, which unfolds into the boy, the youth and the middle-aged man, old age is ever dormant. So, too, it is the which unfolds into the and finally into (the objective Universe). For example, when some one photographs Me, I appear as a very small in the negative. But we can enlarge it to the size we desire to have. The in the big photo and the in the small one are the same. Can you assert that this five-foot three inches body, alone, is and that the figure in that tiny picture is not? The (lightest) and (heaviest) are both true. They are the same, but looked at from different angles. Therefore, O Embodiments of , turn your vision from the outer universe into the Inner Glow, the Athmic Splendour, which you really are.