Passage 16

In English

realises the inscrutable ways of the Lord

wanted to teach a lesson. He took the form of all the calves and all the imprisoned in the cave. In the evening and took the calves and the boys back to their homes. This went on day after day for a whole year. The elders assumed that the calves and the boys were their own. wondered what was happening? Had managed to free the boys and the calves from the cave? When he went into the cave he found all of them inside. He was amazed to find that the same boys and calves were inside as well as outside. He then realised the inscrutable way of the Lord. "How can anyone know you, oh You are subtler than the atom and vaster than the vaste in creation. You dwell in all the myriad species in all the world, how can anyone know you?" He prayed to to forgive him and released the calves and the boys from the cave. This episode reveals that the Supreme Lord can assume countless forms. He can assume the form of the entire cosmos. That is why the declared- "The entire cosmos is dwelt in by God." All are forms of the Divine. How is this possible? By the power of the Will of God. If a man, while asleep, experiences all kinds of things in the dream, including his own movements, while in fact he is motionless on his bed, what is it that is beyond the power of the Supreme Lord? Seeing the Divine in-human form people can have doubts whether the incarnation can have such miraculous powers when he has the same body as themselves. They do not perceive the oneness of the . It is difficult to recognise the Divine in the human form.