Passage 9

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In plain words

Humanness becomes fruitful only when one recognises Satya and acts by it

The one thing that drives away this fear, gives courage and brings fearlessness is the divine alone. Many may ask where this divinity is. If once we recognise the principle and the secret of this creation: how does the earth turn? It turns round the sun. What is the result of this turning? The seasons come about. Who made this turning of the earth round the sun, this measure of time? There must be some Creator of this! Many kinds of argument and counter-argument arise about it. When one plants a small seed in the earth, it splits in two and a plant is born from it. That plant becomes a tree, and many fruits come on it, and a sweet juice gathers inside those fruits. What is the reason for this? Who is the cause of this seed, put in the earth, coming up as a plant? Is it the plant's nature? Who gave it that nature? If we go on enquiring like this, it turns out that all this is nature. Who gave nature this power? A swan, it is said, put its beak into milk! Then the milk and the water came apart, it seems! When someone asked a scientist whether there is such a wonderful power: "Sir! This sacred power is not God's gift. At the front of that swan's beak there is a fluid. When it meets the milk, the milk and the water separate," he said, it seems. "That is true, sir! But who put this fluid at the front of the swan's beak?" When one asked him this in turn, the scientist had no answer. This is the secret of creation. How many kinds of protection God gives this world! Every moment God gives protection in many ways to nourish humanness.

He by whom the world is born, within whom it stays, in whom it is dissolved, He who is the supreme Lord, the root cause, He who has no beginning, middle or end, He who is Himself all: to Him, the self-born, the Lord, I pray for refuge.