GOD ALONE HAS BECOME ALL THINGS

AT one time Rama was overpowered by the spirit
of renunciation. Dasaratha, worried at this, went to
the sage Vasistha and begged him to persuade
Rama not to give up the world. The sage came to
Rama and found him in a gloomy mood. The fire
of intense renunciation had been raging in the
Prince's mind. Vasistha said: "Rama, why should
you renounce the world? Is the world outside
God? Reason with me." Rama realized that the
world had evolved from the supreme Brahman. So
he said nothing.

HOW A MONK KNEW THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD

A certain monk went to the temple of Jagannath at
Puri. He had doubts as to whether God is with
form or without form. When he saw the holy
image, he desired to examine it and settle his
doubt. He passed his staff from the left to the right
in order to feel if it touched the image. For a time,
he could not see anything or feel anything with the
staff. So he decided that God was without form.
When he was about to pass the staff from the right
to the left, it touched the image.
So the monk decided that God is both with form
and without form.

WHAT THE DIVINE MOTHER REVEALED TO ME

Do you know where those who speak of the
formless God make their mistake? It is where
they say that God is formless only, and that those
who differ from them .are wrong.
But I know God is both with and without form.
And he may have many more aspects. It is possible
for Him to be everything.
The Chitsakti, Mahamaya, has become the twenty
four cosmic principles. One day as I was
meditating, my mind wandered away to Rashke's
house. He is a scavenger. I said to my mind, 'Stay
there, you rogue!'
The Divine Mother revealed to me that the men
and women in this house were mere masks; inside
them was the same Divine Power, Kundalini that
rises up through the six spiritual centres of the
body.

MAN WITH A TUB OF DYE

NATURALLY the doubt arises in the mind: if
God is formless, how then can He have form?
Further, if He has a form, why does He have so
many forms?
These things do not become clear until one has
realized God. He assumes different forms and
reveals Himself in different ways for the sake of
His devotees.
A man kept a solution of dye in a tub. Many people
came to him to have their clothes dyed. He would
ask a customer, "What colour should you like to
have your cloth dyed?" If the customer wanted red,
then the man would dip the cloth in the tub and
say, "Here is your cloth dyed red." ff another
customer wanted his cloth dyed yellow, the man
would dip his cloth in the same tub and say, "Here
is your cloth dyed yellow." If a customer wanted
his cloth dyed blue, the man would dip it in the
same tub and say, "Here is your cloth dyed blue."
Thus he would dye the clothes of his customers
different colours, dipping them all in the same
solution. One of the customers watched all this
with amazement. The man asked him, "Well! What
colour do you want for your cloth?" The customer
said, "Brother, dye my cloth the colour of the dye
in your tub."

THE CHAMELEON

ONCE a man entered a wood and saw a small
animal on a tree. He came back and told another
man that he had seen a creature of a beautiful red
colour on a certain tree. The second man replied:
"When f went into the wood, I also saw that
animal. But why do you call it red? It is green."
Another man who was present contradicted them
both and insisted that it was yellow. Presently
others arrived and contended that it was grey,
violet, blue, and so forth and so on. At last they
started quarrelling among themselves. To settle the
dispute they all went to the tree. They saw a man
sitting under it. On being asked, he replied: *'Yes, I
live under this tree and I know the animal very
well. All your descriptions are true. Sometimes it
appears red, sometimes yellow, and at other times
blue, violet, grey and so forth- It is a chameleon.
And sometimes it has no colour at all. Now it has
a colour, and now it has none."
In like manner, one who constantly thinks of God
can know His real nature; he alone knows that
God reveals Himself to seekers in various forms
and aspects. God has attributes; then again He has
none. Only the man who lives under the tree
knows that the chameleon can appear in various
colours, and he knows further that the animal at
times has no colour at all. It is the others who
suffer from the agony of futile argument.

ALL PURE SPIRIT

ALL doubts disappear when one sees God. It is
one thing to hear of God, but quite a different
thing to see Him. A man cannot have one hundred
per cent conviction through mere hearing. But if
he beholds God face to face, then he is wholly
convinced.
Formal worship drops away after the vision of
God. It was thus that my worship in the temple
came to an end. I used to worship the deity in the
Kali Temple. It was suddenly revealed to me that
everything is Pure Spirit. The utensils of worship,
the altar, the door-frame - all Pure Spirit. Then like
a mad man I began to shower flowers in all
directions. Whatever I saw I worshipped

HE EATS, YET EATS NOT

ONCE Vyasadeva was about to cross the Jamuna.
The gopis also were there. They wanted to go to
the other side of the river to sell curd, milk, and
cream. But there was no ferry at that time. They
were all worried about how to cross the river,
when Vyasa said to them, "I am very hungry." The
milkmaids fed him with milk and cream. He
finished almost all their food. Then Vyasa said to
the river, "O Jamuna, if I have not eaten anything,
then your waters will part and we shall walk
through." It so happened. The river parted and a
pathway was formed between the waters.
Following that path, the gopis and Vyasa crossed
the river.
Vyasa had said, "If I have not eaten anything."
That means, the real man is Pure Atman. Atman is
unattached and beyond Prakriti. It has neither
hunger nor thirst; It knows neither birth nor death;
It does not age, nor does It die. It is immutable as
Mount Sumeru.