What is the connection between the Spirit within and the external world? Bhagawan explains by giving a beautiful example today.

Understand the true relationship between the external phenomenal world and the world of Spirit inside. The external world is a reflection of the inner being. All happiness that you seek from external objects is within yourself. Take the example of the ocean. The water that turns into vapour from the ocean assumes a different form and quality. It acquires purity and sweetness and returns to the ocean in another form. Look at the changes it goes through in this process. Going up as vapour, becoming a cloud, coming down as rain, flowing as rivulets, it joins the ocean as a river. The change into vapour is Sathya (truth). The formation of the cloud is Dharma (right conduct). Coming down as raindrops corresponds to Prema (drops of love). When the drops join to become a river, there is the flow of Ananda (bliss). This stream of bliss merges in the ocean of Grace. Sometime or other, what has come from the Divine has to merge in the Divine. This is the natural destiny of all living beings – taking birth as a manava (man), leading a life of a jivi (individual being), again returning to the form of Madhava (divine nature), and ultimately merging in the Divine.

– Divine Discourse, Mar 07, 1997



Man should express love more and more to make the inner divine light in the body shine more brilliantly. – BABA