TRUE KNOWLEDGE CONSISTS IN UNDERSTANDING THE INNER MEANING OF THIS CREATION

The cosmos is the magnificent manifestation of the Divine. When you direct your vision on this vast creation you are filled with awe and wonder. At first sight what we see are inert objects like mountains, hills. We cannot see any sign of
consciousness in these objects.

The seconds category of objects are trees. There is a consciousness in them, but they cannot move from place to place. They are stationary.

The third category are living beings. Besides consciousness, these have the capacity of motion.

Man belongs to the fourth category. He has not only fully developed consciousness, but has another extraordinary, marvellous, quality.

"That is the supreme gift of speech".

Remember! Starting with the inert, we have the conscience, the mobile beings and the human species with the power of speech. If this progression in the creative process is rightly understood we can realize how important is the advent of man.

Please understand the inner meaning of this creation.

One is the (seed) of the universe(cosmos). No seed exists without husk. Because the grain is covered by husk its parts are not visible to us. For the cosmos... nature is the husk.

The seed of divinity is within it (and enveloped by it). We cannot experience the seed of divinity within... as long as it is covered by the husk of Nature. We have to endevour to get at the truth about Nature. We have to seek the truth of every thing in our daily lives. For instance, what for has Nature come into beings?

Nature's role is to help man, the crowning achievement of the evolutionary process, to realize the Divinity immanent in creation.

Mountains help man to build houses by using stone slabs, quarried from them. Trees provide the timber for constructing houses and also firewood for domestic use. Among animate beings, every creature, from an ant to an elephant, is of assistance to man in one way or another.

Cows provide nourishing milk to man. Bullocks are useful for ploughing the fields and helping to grow food crops. All other creatures like birds, fish, sheep and others are serving man in different ways.

Seen in this light it will be clear that all things in creation are helpful to man in leading his life. Even the sun and the moon are serving man.

Thus man is deriving innumerable debts from Nature, and enjoying the amenities provided by Nature in various ways.

But what is the gratitude he is showing to Nature? What gratitude is he offering to the Divine? He is forgetting the Divine who is the provider of everything,

"That is the reason for his becoming a prey to various difficulties and calamities. While he is receiving countless gifts from Providence, he is offering nothing in return to 'NATURE' or 'GOD'.

This shows how unnatural and heartless is the behaviour of man. When we are enjoined to return good for evil, how unbecoming it is to fail even to return good for good?

Man is not learning the great lessons Nature is teaching him.

"The foremost lesson is doing service with no expectation of return".

People ask, "Where is God?" The answer is provided by Nature, by your body, by your breathe. Who is that has created the five elements, the life-breaths, the five sheaths, the five external sense organs and the five internal sense organs.

Which are all ceaselessly carrying on their functions according to their prescribed roles. The seasons in their regular cycle are teaching a good lesson to man.

Therefore Nature is the demonstrable proof for the existence of God. Nature is not any under obligation to any man... It takes no orders from any man, it operates according to the "Will of the Divine".

Do you think life is a result? Life is not a result; It is already there. It is a grace. Nothing is to be done to attain to it...

What have you done to be born?
What have you done so that you can breathe?
What have you done so that you can be conscious?
What have you done so that you can fall in love?
It has happened... It is a sheer grace, a gift.

So please imbibe and ruminate;
"The True Knowledge Consists In Understanding The Inner Meaning Of This Creation...."


From Empty Hands,
A. Rahman bin Mahadi
Labis, Johore
016-6020321

19 JUNE 2010

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