26 July 2025
Saturday
Not being able to recognise your innate divinity is ignorance. You have to enquire into the reason for this ignorance. This is mainly because you follow the pravritti marga (outward path) all your life under the influence of the sense organs, which are projected outward. You are not making any effort to follow the nivritti marga (inward journey). All that you see, hear or think about are outward acts. In fact, everything that you do is outward. Thus, you are fully engrossed in the outward activities and are completely neglecting the inward path. Embodiments of Love! You need to make an effort to understand the value of man. In fact, there is no divinity other than that present in man. Thus, first, it is necessary to understand man before you can even attempt to understand divinity. In fact, there is no difference between man and divinity. Man is God; God is man. There is only a difference of perception. You see the world with a worldly view and do not recognise the divinity that pervades it. You have to make an effort to change your vision from outward to inward to perceive this divinity.
From Swami’s discourse of 1 January 2000
Not being able to recognise your innate divinity is ignorance. You have to enquire into the reason for this ignorance. This is mainly because you follow the pravritti marga (outward path) all your life under the influence of the sense organs, which are projected outward. You are not making any effort to follow the nivritti marga (inward journey). All that you see, hear or think about are outward acts. In fact, everything that you do is outward. Thus, you are fully engrossed in the outward activities and are completely neglecting the inward path. Embodiments of Love! You need to make an effort to understand the value of man. In fact, there is no divinity other than that present in man. Thus, first, it is necessary to understand man before you can even attempt to understand divinity. In fact, there is no difference between man and divinity. Man is God; God is man. There is only a difference of perception. You see the world with a worldly view and do not recognise the divinity that pervades it. You have to make an effort to change your vision from outward to inward to perceive this divinity.