Swami teaches...

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"I must tell you the difference between three aspects, the bodily aspect,

the soul aspect and the divine aspect. A potter, in order that he may make his

pots and pans, goes to a tank and takes the mud out of the tank, thereby

creating a big deep pit. He would take the mud by creating the pit and taking

clay out of the tank. He removes that mud and brings it in a cart to his house.

In this way, because every day he is bringing mud from the tank and putting it

in front of his house, there is a big mound or heap that has been formed. It

means one has to go down the ditch or the depression in the tank. In front of

the house, one has to climb up the heap or the mound. The mud from the pit in

the tank is the same as the mud in the mound in front of the house. The potter

takes some mud and goes on preparing every day some pots, some vessels, some

pans and so on. Gradually, as he makes the pots, the mud which filled the mound

goes on slowly diminishing in volume. The potter is preparing pots and he is

putting them in fire and hardening them and is selling them to various people.

Before the pots have been made and sold, when he puts water on the mud which is

in the mound that gets into the mud and mixes with it. On the other hand, after

making the pot, if you put water into the pot, which is made out of the mud

that water is not absorbed. It remains as water inside the pot. Wherefrom has

this change or this transformation come? The mud which was got from the tank or

the mound or which went into the making of the pot is all the same. But it has

taken the shape in one case of the pot, in another case of the mound and in

another case of the pit. For the depression, for the mound and for the pot, the

root cause is mud. But in course of time, this pot is going to break. In course

of time, the mound in front of the potter's house will become smaller and

smaller. But the mud remains all the time as mud." (Bhagawan Sathya Sai Baba.

Purusha and Prakriti, Summer Showers in Brindavan, May 1972).

 

Namaste - Reet