9 July 2026
Thursday
If you mix sugar with the wheat flour or the rice flour and prepare some kind of sweet, you will get the sweet taste of such a preparation in your mouth. Although there is no inherent sweetness in either the rice or the wheat, the sugar gives the sweetness. In the same manner, when Vishnutvam (Omnipresence of Divinity) is contemplated as being present even in a lifeless thing, even that thing appears to us as a divine entity filled with that sweetness. Although the sweets which we prepare and eat have many different forms and names, the fact is that all of them contain one common thing, and that is sugar. So too, we must also realise that in this world, while there are so many individuals with different forms and names, the one common thing that is present in all of them is this Vishnutvam or the omnipresent Atma. This principle is the reason individuals have love for each other, and there are various forms of relationships and affection between people. It is necessary for every individual to recognise the sweetness of this principle of divine omnipresence in all. You should realise this by your own effort, or by listening to what the elders tell you, or by having darshana, sparshana, and sambhashana, i.e. by seeing, touching, and hearing great people.
From Swami’s discourse of 1 June 1973
If you mix sugar with the wheat flour or the rice flour and prepare some kind of sweet, you will get the sweet taste of such a preparation in your mouth. Although there is no inherent sweetness in either the rice or the wheat, the sugar gives the sweetness. In the same manner, when Vishnutvam (Omnipresence of Divinity) is contemplated as being present even in a lifeless thing, even that thing appears to us as a divine entity filled with that sweetness. Although the sweets which we prepare and eat have many different forms and names, the fact is that all of them contain one common thing, and that is sugar. So too, we must also realise that in this world, while there are so many individuals with different forms and names, the one common thing that is present in all of them is this Vishnutvam or the omnipresent Atma. This principle is the reason individuals have love for each other, and there are various forms of relationships and affection between people. It is necessary for every individual to recognise the sweetness of this principle of divine omnipresence in all. You should realise this by your own effort, or by listening to what the elders tell you, or by having darshana, sparshana, and sambhashana, i.e. by seeing, touching, and hearing great people.