28 July 2026
Tuesday
Electricity is found everywhere in nature; but it can be collected, stored and utilised only through certain contrivances designed by man. The spiritual Atma-shakti (inner divine power) that is also everywhere is stored in a body and passed through the thin wires or nerves, it illumines and directs activity. These activities have to be oriented towards ananda (supreme bliss), and not attachments to temporary pleasures. The Life Principle that flows as intelligence through every cell and nerve is also a reflection of the Atma. That which is born has also to die; coming implies going. That which has no birth has no death either. The Atma has no birth, no death, nor can you say It spreads or grows, or weakens. It has no history. ‘It is’, that is all that can be said about It. It is ever Intelligence, ever Bliss. There is the urge to desire a thing; that is named ichchha-shakti —but, it too is a derivative of the Atma-shakti, the Divine that is your core. Realise it as such and do not demean it by desiring deleterious objects. Desire, so sublimated, is the basis of prema (Love). It is the fruit of the tree of God-ward directed ichchaa-shakti. The fruit has the bitter rind (maya) and the hard seeds (the perception of diversity); these have to be discarded, and the sweetness tasted. That sweet juice is the ananda the Atma confers.
Electricity is found everywhere in nature; but it can be collected, stored and utilised only through certain contrivances designed by man. The spiritual Atma-shakti (inner divine power) that is also everywhere is stored in a body and passed through the thin wires or nerves, it illumines and directs activity. These activities have to be oriented towards ananda (supreme bliss), and not attachments to temporary pleasures. The Life Principle that flows as intelligence through every cell and nerve is also a reflection of the Atma. That which is born has also to die; coming implies going. That which has no birth has no death either. The Atma has no birth, no death, nor can you say It spreads or grows, or weakens. It has no history. ‘It is’, that is all that can be said about It. It is ever Intelligence, ever Bliss. There is the urge to desire a thing; that is named ichchha-shakti —but, it too is a derivative of the Atma-shakti, the Divine that is your core. Realise it as such and do not demean it by desiring deleterious objects. Desire, so sublimated, is the basis of prema (Love). It is the fruit of the tree of God-ward directed ichchaa-shakti. The fruit has the bitter rind (maya) and the hard seeds (the perception of diversity); these have to be discarded, and the sweetness tasted. That sweet juice is the ananda the Atma confers.