Thought for the day as written at Prasanthi Nilayam - Aug. 24, 2005

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Today, people mistakenly think that spirituality has no relation to

worldly life and vice versa. True divinity is a combination of

spirituality and social obligations. National unity and social

harmony are founded upon spirituality. It is the Divine that links

spirituality and social existence. The Creator and the Prakriti

(Cosmos) are inextricably associated with each other. Hence, God

should not be regarded as separate from creation. See God in the

cosmos. For instance, here is a tumbler made of silver. The one who

notices the silver in the tumbler, thinks only of the material base

and not the form of the tumbler. The one who sees it as a tumbler,

does not note its silver base. Only the person who can recognise

both silver and tumbler can recognise that it is a silver tumbler.

Likewise, without God, there is no creation. However, most people

see only the creation; very few recognise that the creation is a

projection of the Creator. It is essential that every human being

should have the realization that without the Brahman (Supreme) there

can be no cosmos.

 

-SAI BABA