Passage 7

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In plain words

Know the Creator, and the secret of creation becomes clear

In chemistry, certain substances take shape by combining certain Chemicals. For example, their proof is that by combining one part of oxygen and two parts of hydrogen it is made into water. They combine the two, oxygen and hydrogen, and make them into water; but have they been able to create hydrogen and oxygen? That is God's creation alone. In the same way, God created clay. God created water. Combining this water and clay, the potter creates a pot. We take this pot as our basis. We do not take as our basis God, who created the clay and water that are the basis of this pot. We are making efforts of many kinds to discover the secret of creation. But however hard they try, no one can discover the secret of creation. If we recognise the secret of the Creator, the whole of creation becomes easy for us to understand. So, to recognise the principle of creation, we must understand this Haṃsa principle. There is the atom. Tremendous energy is packed into this atom. With this atomic energy itself they are producing boundless power. But who put this mighty energy into this atom? They are using the energy that is there, but who is the Maker who created that energy? Leaving aside the Doer, they give importance to the deed.

No one at all can change God's creation

In the same way, a small example. The swan. This swan carries out the inquiry into the Ātma and the anātma. In our history too there is a tale that when you mix water and milk and set them before a swan, it separates the milk and the water. If we put this same matter to a scientist, “Sir! This swan separates water and milk that have become one: what is the principle of it?”, he answers, “At the tip of the swan's beak there is a kind of acid; because of it, the moment it puts its beak into the milk, the milk and water separate,” so he says.