In plain words
Here we cannot say that substance has no shape. Everything has a shape. If you break an atom into pieces, at the very end even the piece the eye cannot see has a shape. Even if you split the finest particle again into finest particles, it still has a form. Today's scientist has learned very little. But the publicity and the show are great. Because of this very show, man is unable to understand the divine principle well. Man has found the finest particle. There is still the need to recognise what is far greater. Recognising the form of this universe is not possible for anyone at all. If we recognise divinity, the most easy, the most near, the most tender, the most dear, we will have recognised the whole universe. These qualities of Prakṛti are qualities opposed to us. Desire, anger, greed, delusion, pride and envy. When we rise above these qualities of Prakṛti and enter into the qualities of God, such as Prema, patience, sympathy, Satya, kindness and compassion, we will easily have beheld the universe.
Students! Today you do a great deal of research in the laboratory. What result have we gained from it? Having learned all this, you go off to some company, display it, introduce it, and fill your stomachs. Apart from this, you are doing no other great work. If you recognise divinity, the basis of all, the key to all, the root of all, it becomes possible to do a great deal of good to society. How much purity the earth gives to man! It takes into itself the poisonous germs that come forth from the sun, and goes on nourishing the living beings of the world so well. Not only this. Laser rays come from the sun. In medicine and engineering it is of use in many ways. But it is poisonous. There are such poisonous, fearful energies. The earth sets up three shields and, drawing such energies in, holds them within itself. How far does the atmosphere that suits the earth extend? From the earth's upper surface up to a thousand miles, it belongs to the earth. So, because the atmosphere that suits the earth extends up to a thousand miles, living beings are able to live on the earth. But scientists recognise it to some extent, through acquaintance with books and through atomic tests. This is nothing but research by machine. With the power of mantra it is many times more. If the machine breaks down, all these powers go to waste. But the power of mantra is not like that. It is full of amṛta. It is deathless. It is pure and unmoving. It is eternal. It is true. Today they have set up a laser machine in the laboratory. If the current goes, it does not work. Each machine costs a crore of rupees, two crores. Machines of such value are not worth a farthing when the current goes. But the power of mantra is not like that. It spreads everywhere through waves. The whole world is magnetic through and through. The whole body is magnetic through and through. Whatever substance you look at, it is magnetic through and through. But it is quantity difference, not quality. For the power of mantra there is no such thing as quality or quantity. There is no distinction: ‘this is this creature, that is that creature.’ There is no distinction: ‘this is a man, this is a worm.’ The body may be big, or it may be small. We must not judge by forms. We must not take our studies as the measure. We must not think, ‘I have done an M.Sc., a Ph.D.’ These are certain marks in the world. When we go for a job, we show these marks. But no one can see how great, how vast, how powerful the mark within us is. Holding such a divine power within us, we sit describing only a few petty powers. There are no powers anywhere else that are not in this universe. When you look at the sky at night, the stars seem to be close to one another. No, no. They look that way because they are so very far away. But between star and star there are many lakhs of miles. So we can never recognise this form of the universe. How can man, who cannot recognise the universe, recognise the form of the universe? The universe is not only the sun, the moon and the stars that we see. There are many such. All of them together make up the form of the universe. This itself has been called the Virāṭ form of the universe. Kṛṣṇa did not show Arjuna the form of the universe. It was the Virāṭ form of the universe. He showed what is in the regions above and in the regions below. In the spiritual way of that age, He went on showing the worlds called Atala, Vitala, Sutala, Talātala, Rasātala, Mahātala and Pātāla. All of these are nothing but the form of Viṣṇu. Only when all of these come together is there the Virāṭ form of the universe. Wherever you look, all is nothing but one power. This very power has been called divinity. Believers called it divinity. Unbelievers called it power. But they have gone on turning a limited power into Prakṛti. Needlessly sunk in arguments and counter-arguments, they push away divinity, which is nearest of all. To look at, it may be small in form. To look at, an ant is small. When an ant bites, how it hurts! How much power there is in it! In the same way, looking at this small form and at the conduct of this small form, they forget the principle of the universe. The universe itself is the form of Viṣṇu. There is no difference between the two.