Passage 18

In English

Follow The Path Of Spirituality

Suppose you enter a room of mirrors. You will find your images all around. As an intelligent being, you know that they are all your own reflections. But when a dog enters the room of mirrors, it regards those reflections as some alien dogs trying to attack it, and it starts fighting with those images. The mirrors get broken and each piece appears as a separate dog. He who regards the world as an integrated entity of God is God indeed. He recognises the unity in diversity of all objects in the world. One who considers the world as consisting of fragments of objects has an aberrated or perverse vision. He is no better than a dog. This kind of divisive outlook is due to illusion. Where is the question of fear for a person who considers all as one? Only a divisive mind will have fear. There is no delusion when there is no fear. God is beyond attributes; and yet He is present in them. There is mud in a pot, but there is no pot in the mud. Pot got a name because of its form. Similarly, even though there are no attributes in Him, all attributes are contained in God. God is eternal, dispassionate, ever pure, having no specific name or form. Where there is a form, there is a name. Where there are forms, there is Nature. Names and forms relate to head, whereas qualities such as , , , , (truth, compassion, love, patience and equanimity) relate to the heart. They do not have any form or shape. They relate to (spirituality). Man should endeavour to change his attitude of (worldliness) into . This is what is known as .