GITA FOR CHILDREN - Part IX

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called Manifest Divinity. There is a higher aspect, Unmanifest Divinity, that

transcends Space and Time. This Unmanifest Divinity is known by various names

such as Brahman, Atma, Absolute Reality, Pure Consciousness, and so on. Don’t

be scared by all these names! Just think of the Unmanifest as God, and keep Him

always in your mind.’ 6. ‘As you know, there are both inanimate and animate

entities in the Universe. Minerals, ocean, mountains, etc., are inanimate while

insects, birds, animals and humans of course are animate.’ 7. ‘Just as a house

is built by assembling bricks, so is all matter in the Universe made up of

atoms. Thus, atoms are the building blocks of matter. No wonder then that atoms

are to be found everywhere, from here to the very edge of

the Cosmos.’ 8. ‘Living beings too are made up of atoms but there is something

very special about them; they have this mysterious thing in them called life. No

one can see life directly or touch it but everybody can experience life. You can

also see life in other beings not only through their actions but also through

their growth and decay.’ 9. ‘This life-principle is sometimes called Jiva,

and is an aspect of Unmanifest Divinity. Earlier I described a living person as

the Atma “trapped” in a cage or the body. The embodied Atma is also called the

Jivatma. Thus, Arjuna, you are a Jivatma.’ 10. Arjuna asks,

‘ Krishna what about You? Are You also a Jivatma?’ 11. Krishna replies, ‘No

way! I am special; I am the Paramatma! Don’t ask Me for the difference right

now! I shall come back to that later perhaps.’ 12. ‘Getting on with what I was

telling you, let Me now describe how I pervade the Universe. To start with I

must remind you that everything in the Universe has come out of Me and Me

alone. In other words, I am the Creator. Don’t get fooled by the fact that

right now I have a body like yours, and eat, walk, talk etc., like humans do.

In fact, this is how humans get deluded by appearances where Avatars are

concerned.’ 13. ‘Let Me stress that I am not only the Creator but in fact the

Ultimate Ultimate, if you will! There is nothing beyond Me!! Remember

that.’ 14. ‘In the physical Universe, I pervade everything that you can think

of. I am, for example, present in all the five elements – sky, air, fire, water

and earth. But here I must caution you. To describe Me as being present in this

or that is only a limited way of looking at things. It is more appropriate to

say that God IS the sky or the ether, God IS air, God IS fire and so on. In

fact, everything in the Universe IS God!’ 15. Arjuna asks, ‘ Krishna, if

everything in the Universe is God, then why don’t people see God everywhere?’

16. Krishna replies, ‘Ah, that is because God

disguises and hides Himself to see if you can find Him! It is a game He likes to

play! Consider a garland with many beautiful flowers. Can a bunch of flowers

form a garland all by themselves? You need a connecting thread don’t you? Yet,

when you see a garland, is that connecting thread visible? No! I am the

foundation and the basis for the physical and manifest Universe. Can you have a

house without a foundation? It is the same thing here; and like the foundation

of a house, I remain hidden!’ 17. ‘However, this does not mean My presence

cannot be felt or experienced. Let us say you are very thirsty and your throat

is absolutely parched. You see a clear stream with cool water flowing in it.

You drink that water to your heart’s content and find it very refreshing. But

you do not know that the sweetness of that cool and fresh water is Me! It is I,

latent as sweetness in that

water that brings joy to you.’ 18. ‘Another example. It is a hot and humid day

and you are perspiring heavily. Suddenly there is a gust of cool breeze and you

feel relief. Arjuna, I am that breeze, giving you that refreshing experience.’

19. ‘I am the brilliance of the blazing fire and the radiant blue of the sky.

Time being short, I won’t give more examples, though I can go on and on till

the end of Time! It is enough for you to know that all excellence and beauty in

the Universe flows directly from Me. If you see a very intelligent person, know

for certain that this person’s intelligence is not his own but flows from Me.

Your brother Bhima is very strong; you know that; but do you know that his

strength is really a tiny part of My strength, reflected via

him?’ To Be Continued... With Sai love from Sai brothers –

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