Passage 7

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In plain words

All creation runs by God's will alone

It is the principle of God alone that creates all this world, sustains it, rules it, and carries it across in every way! Taking his stand on attachment to the body, attachment to wealth and attachment to power, man believes in many ways that the power lies in himself. All these are unsteady! They are impermanent! Śaṅkara said this very thing in this way:

Mā kuru dhanajanayavvana garvaṃ haratinimeṣātkālassarvaṃ.

What is this pride of youth? What is this pride of wealth? What is this pride of learning? What is the pride of power? All these are unsteady, like passing clouds! None of these is lasting. The will of God alone is what matters. All creation runs by God's will alone. Unable to recognise this truth, man imagines that he himself has created everything. This is no one's creation; it is God's creation alone! God's creation is a wonder. Who can recognise such a great wonder, God's creation, and in what way? He gave the green parrot a red beak. Who but God could give it this? How wonderful the peacock is! Who put paint on it? All this is the creation of God's will! When there is so great a creation of will in God, man imagines that he has done something. This is man's Ahaṅkāra. No, no. We must believe in the power of God. We must regard the power of God as our all in all. Whatever happens, we must take it as God's prasāda. Sorrow is His prasāda; happiness is His prasāda! Happiness and sorrow both are His prasāda! We must strive to regard the two alike. Worldly pleasures and riches go in a moment. Unable to grasp this, man, through Ahaṅkāra, envy and show, puts his whole faith in humanness alone. This is not what we should believe in. What we should believe in is God alone! We must believe in the power of God alone. All human life is an inert life. Such a life is able to do all its work only through God, who is consciousness.