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Chapter 10
CONTEMPLATION OF GOD’S MANIFESTATIONS
52. God In Creation
9. We must first learn to see Him in pure and gentle forms among human beings. Likewise we should also see Him first in His grand and beautiful forms in nature. 10. Look at the divine glow that precedes sunrise on the horizon at the dawn. The Vedic sages looked upon it as a goddess and danced in ecstasy while singing her hymns: “O Usha! You are the messenger of the Lord. You are bathed in dew drops. You are the banner of immortality.” So captivating and magnificent their descriptions are! The Vedic sage says, “If I do not comprehend Him even after seeing you, the divine messenger, what else can convince me of His presence?” Such is the splendour of Usha at the horizon. But we have no eyes for her. 11. Likewise, look at the sun. To see him is to see the Lord. He keeps on painting an endless variety of pictures on the canvas of the sky. Artists labour hard for months in trying to catch the beauty of the sunrise on the canvas. But, rise early in the morning and just have a look at the Lord’s art on the horizon. With what can we compare that divine art, that infinite beauty? But who bothers to look at that? The Lord is there with all His splendour; but man, the wretched creature, pulls the sheets a little closer and continues to snore. The sun says, “You lazy man! I shall not let you sleep any more,” and it wakes him up with his warm rays. ‘सूर्य आत्मा जगतस्तस्थुषश्च-’ the sun is the soul of all that moves and all that is still. It is the support of everything animate and inanimate. The sages have called it ‘Mitra’ (the friend). मित्रो जनान् यातयति ब्रुवाणः, मित्रो दाधार पृथिवीमुत द्याम्-’‘This friend calls out people and makes them work. He sustains the heaven and the earth.’ The sun is indeed the support of life. See God in him. |
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