Thus Spake The Lord

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Thus Spake The Lord

 

 

 

Consider how man has shaped since millions of years for this high destiny. During the primeval cosmic chaos, there were two phenomena struggling to overwhelm each other. On one side was the fiery lava flood vomited by the volcanoes and emanating from the crevices and chasms that scarred the horrifying face of the earth. The destructive conflagration swept in all directions scattering panic and death, heralding the end of everything. On the other side, scarcely noticed, microscopic amoeba floated furtively on the water's edge or clung desperately in the cracks of rocks, keeping the faint spark of life unharmed from fire and flood. Who could have predicted at that time that the future was within the animalcule or amoeba, whose appearance itself was due to an accident, and whose survival was an enigma? Who could have foreseen that these minute specks of life could hold out triumphantly against the devastating onslaught of heat and cold?

 

But that speck of Life-Consciousness (Chaitanya) won through. Sheer intelligence, adaptability and perseverance in "willing" to live helped it to defeat the mortal fury of the elements. By the unfolding of that Life-Consciousness, the amoeba blossomed into various species of living beings, gigantic and microscopic. At last, it grew into man. In man it bore fruit as goodness and virtue, sympathy and sacrifice, oratory and music, song and dance, scholarship and saadhana, martyrdom and sainthood, and as repositories of Divinity; nay, even Divine Manifestations assumed the human form.

 

 

 

Reference: Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol. VI, P. 215-217.