We are the Seeds of
the Perfections of the Divine

We see a little plant. It has beautiful leaves and fragrant flowers. From where did all those leaves of fascinating colour and those tender, delicate petals of fragrance emerge? They were latent in the seed. We are the seeds of God’s Love, Beauty, Goodness, Knowledge, Power, Happiness.
Love and Beauty, Goodness and Knowledge, Power and Happiness - these are natural to us. As seeds of God’s infinite Splendour, we bear in ourselves the unlimited Love, the absolute Beauty, the unconditioned and eternal Happiness.
Absolute Love is one perfection; absolute Beauty is another perfection; absolute Goodness is the third perfection; absolute Knowledge is the fourth perfection; absolute Power is the fifth perfection; and absolute Happiness is yet another perfection. These are to be unfolded.
As the mind in man unfolds an entire epic of experiences in the dream-state, so does the higher Consciousness unfold unending beauties, qualities, experiences of the supreme divine Being. The “within” becomes the “without”. If the “within” were not pre-existent, there could be no “without”. The patent is the self-expression of what was latent. The inner essence manifests itself in the outer substance. The “hidden” infinite divine Essence presents itself to the active realization in the daily life of the individual.
However, the seed of the divine qualities, beauties, perfections in each of us, is covered over by a hard shell of the limiting ego, the distorting ego, the limiting selfishness, impurities, errors, pride, ignorance, imperfections. This shell has to be split, grown over and transcended.

Swami Omkarananda

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Spiritual Calendar
July - September 2005