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Forms are Different but the Supreme Exist in All
The Supreme Consciousness Exists Everywhere in Creation
(Excerpts from www.swami-krishnananda.org)
Once a spiritual teacher was teaching his student about the Supreme Consciousness that exists everywhere in creation. He gave a glass of water to each student and a plate with some salt. He instructed them, "Take some salt and put it in the glass of water.” The student followed the teacher’s instruction. The class was then dismissed for the day.
The next morning the students returned to class and greeted the teacher. The teacher says, "Yesterday you put salt into the glass of water, bring that salt."
The students go to their desks and sees that the salt is not in the glass of water. So they could not bring the salt to the teacher.
The students say, "Sir, there is no salt in the water."
The teacher replied, "Now I shall prove that there is salt. You sip a little of the water from the top and tell me how it tastes." "It is saltish," says one student. "You sip a little from the middle and tell me its taste." "It is salty," chimes in another student.
The teacher explained, "You sip a little from any part of the water and see how it tastes."
The students answer, "All is salty, Sir."
The teacher questions the students, "So, now tell me, does the salt exist there or not?"
"Yes Sir, the salt does exist in the water."
The teacher says, "But you cannot see it, is it not?"
The students reply, "Yes, we cannot see it."
The teacher explains, “Now, this is a proof to show that though we cannot see a thing, it can exist. Because the salt is dissolved in water, the salt cannot be seen through the eyes, but through some other means, the organ of taste, we can discover that it is there. By one means we cannot see the salt but by another means we can. Do you understand this?”
The students reply, “Yes Sir we understand.”
The teacher further explained, “Similar is the case with the Supreme Being that has entered into the substance of all this creation. In the same way, as we cannot see the salt in water but we can verify its existence by some other means, that is, by tasting, we cannot see this Supreme Being in the different aspects of creation as it is dissolved in the world, as it were salt in water. But, by employing another means, other than the sense organs and the mind, we can find out that this Supreme Being is in every particle of creation. Then we will find that the Supreme Being exists everywhere in the universe, just as salt is everywhere in the saline water. Wherever we touch, we touch That only, just as wherever we touch the water which is saline, we are touching salt only in that water.
The teacher then gave another example, “Here are the rivers Ganga, Yamuna, Saraswati, Krishna, Cauvery, etc. The waters of each river have come from the waters of the Ocean. All the rivers flow toward the same ocean and fall into the same body of water that is the Ocean. When they enter the ocean they become a mass of water and you no longer can make out which is Ganga, which is Yamuna, or any other. If you take a tumbler of water from the ocean, do you know which river-water you are taking.”
The students replied, “No Sir.”
The teacher asked, “Why not?
One student answered, “Sir when the river flows into the ocean, the water of the river mixes thoroughly with the water in the ocean. We will not know which water belonged to a particular river.”
The teacher agreed, “You are absolutely correct, no river thinks "I am Ganga", "I am Yamuna", etc., after it has entered the ocean. The bodily distinction of the river is completely transcended, overcome, abolished from the roots. All is now the ocean. This is an analogy (comparison) to describe what the Supreme Being is, in respect of the various individuals here.
We have individual bodies and different names similar to the rivers, each particle in creation has come from the Supreme being and moves towards the ocean of the Absolute. Our reaching the pure Being, which is the Absolute, is just like the rivers entering the ocean. The rivers become the ocean and they do not know where they are, yet they are there. We cannot say that the rivers are absent in the ocean. They are there. But they have transcended the sense of individuality. It is not that the rivers are destroyed there, but they are absorbed into a larger Being, into a greater reality of themselves, which is their Self.”
One student wanted to ensure he understood. He asked, “Sir, is it that we can say, the ocean is the Supreme Self of the rivers towards which they go and get absorbed, which they become in the end? Each student or everything in creation is flowing or moving towards the ocean of the Supreme Being. When we go there, we cannot distinguish ourselves, for we become one with the Absolute. Also like the waters of each river has come from the Ocean, the different aspects of creation; you, me and all things in the world have come only from the Absolute?”
“Absolutely correct. Now this is the Reality, this Supreme Being is the source of all things, and you too are that (Tat-tvam-asi)."
One student questioned, "It does not appear that you have concluded the instructions. There is something more. This is the life of all Beings. That you call the Existence or the Being of things is also the Vitality in all. It is what is called life. We say, there is life in this and there is no life in that. A tree has life, but a stone has no life. What is meant by Life? Is it that Supreme Being has manifested Itself less in one thing, and It has manifested Itself in a greater proportion in something else? It seems that there is a greater manifestation of Reality in plants and the vegetable kingdom than in stones and the mineral kingdom, for instance. Kindly explain this so that my doubts may be cleared."
The teacher points to a tree in the school yard, "Look at this big tree in front of our class. Suppose someone takes an axe and cuts one of its branches, it will immediately demonstrate that it has got life. Juice will flow from that cut part. Because there is life, it will exude the essence from its body. This will happen if it is cut in any other part of its body also. Suppose one cuts the trunk, then also we will see the juice coming out. You may cut a little branch on the top. Then also you will see that there is life in it, as juice will exude from that particular part. The exuberant growth of the tree is due to the life that is in the tree. The life essence is not less in a small branch and more in the trunk of the tree. It exists equally in all parts of the tree.
That particular branch which is divested or deprived of the life principle becomes dry. It is lifeless. Another branch dries up, a third branch dries up, finally the trunk dries up; the whole tree can dry up. If the life principle in the tree leaves the body of the tree, the whole tree dries up. So what is it that is in the tree which you call life? That is the Essence.
That we call death is the departing of life from a particular body. So death is not the death of the life principle itself. Life itself does not die. The vitality is transferred from one location to another. It is withdrawn from a particular formation. That is all. Life which is the manifestation of the general principle, the pure Being, the Reality, is withdrawn from that particular manifestation called the body. Then that particular form is said to die. It is deprived of the essence, the life-force. So is the case with everything including us. Know this.
This is only an example that I have given to you, my dear children. From this example, this analogy, you must understand everything that follows as an implication. We are all like trees, human bodies endowed with the living principle, and we shall die only when the life principle in us in withdrawn. This Essence that is the Being is the Atman of all things. And everything in this world, everything in this creation has this as the Self. There are not many Selves. Though the bodies are many, forms are many, individuals are many, the Self is only one. So, everything reverts into this Supreme Self from where it has come and towards which it tends some way or other. That You Are, Tat Tvam-Asi," says the teacher.
The teacher wanted to test his students. He wanted to know if they understood the teachings he gave. The next week the teacher gave a fruit to each student. He then instructed the student, “Take the fruit I have given you and eat it in a place where you cannot be seen by anyone.”
One student went into a quiet corner of the garden and ate his fruit. Another student waited until it was dark then she ate her fruit in the cover of darkness. Another went into a nearby forest far away from everyone and ate his fruit.
The next day the teacher asked each student, “Where did you eat your fruit?” Each student replied and told the teacher where the fruit was eaten. Each student had chosen a lonely or dark place where they could not be seen by anyone.
The teacher noticed one student was still holding a fruit. He asked, “Why have you not eaten your fruit?”
The student replied, “Sir I also looked for a lonely spot. I went to the garden, forest, a dark cave and many other places searching for a place where no one would see me while I ate this fruit. However, everywhere I went there was the Supreme Being. When I found the dark cave still there was the rocks of the caves. You have thought us that the Supreme Being resides in all animate and inanimate things. Therefore, I could not find a place where that Supreme Being was not present. He was everywhere, so I could not eat the fruit as the Supreme Being was always watching me.”
The teacher was very happy with the student. The teacher turned to the other students and remarked, "This student has the constant awareness of the existence of God everywhere. He can always see Him, no matter where he is. He knows God is everywhere and in everything so, he does not commit any sin or do harm to anyone.”
“I know the Supreme is the Source of All Creation & All Created Things Return to the Supreme Only!”