Thought for the day as written at Prasanthi Nilayam - Feb 1st, 2006

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Sarvam Brahmamayam Jagath (The entire cosmos is permeated by Brahman or

God). While the Divine is thus all-pervasive, the ability to recognise

this truth is not present in all. The fact is well known that fire is

latent in wood. But on that basis, if one attempts to cook rice in a

vessel, placing it on a lorry load of unlit wood, can the rice be

cooked? Fire has two states - the inner and the outer. The fire that is

invisible and latent is inner fire. This fire, though it is present,

cannot burn anything. The external fire manifests its true form and can

burn anything and reduce it to ashes. Likewise, the power to experience

the omnipresent Divine and envision it internally is possessed by each

one, while only some have the capacity to demonstrate it externally.

-SAI BABA