Satyopanisad

[Guest guest]

Swami! You said that divinity is in everyone. Then, before we were

born where had it been? Does divinity exist even after our death?

 

The Divine exists. Divinity is imperishable, pure and unsullied. It

has neither birth nor death. It is eternal and stable. It is beyond

time and space. Divinity transcends all physical laws.

 

Now, your question is: where did divinity exist prior to your birth

and where will it be after your death, while it is in you during this

lifetime? You see, there is an electrical wire on the wall, and also

holders here and there to which bulbs are fixed. You get light only

if a bulb is fixed to a holder and not otherwise. Why? The current

passes through the wire that enters the bulb fixed to the holder. If

you hold the bulb in your hand, it does not illumine, as there is no

power supply. What you have to understand is this. The current has

not been newly produced to get into the bulb. It was already there in

the wire. If you remove the bulb, what will happen to the current? It

will be there in the wire only. The only difference is that you will

not experience its presence as illumination. Similarly, the bulb is

the body, the current of divinity flows into it as the illumination

of life. When this bulb of the body is removed, even then, the

current of divinity persists hidden or latent, so much so divinity

has all along been there before you were born, during your lifetime

and will even be there after your death like the current of

electricity.