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How We Could Look At The World
This is a speech of Swami Sivananda which he gave on his tour through India and the countries around it in 1950. He spoke to people in Sri Lanka which was already relatively westernized in comparison to India. In my view, it applies to us western people as well.
You admire the little electric lamp on your table.
Have learnt to admire the glorious sun which sheds the light in the whole universe?
You admire a bottle of French parfume.
Have you learnt to admire the fragrance of the rose or jasmine?
You admire the paintings of artists and the little toys made by craftsmen.
Have you ever thought of the beautiful creation of the Lord – this glorious earth itself – which is only an infinitesimal part of His creation?
You glorify the little man who digs a small swimming pool.
Can you glorify the Lord for His creation of oceans, lakes and rivers?
You deify the sculptur who carves some figures out of the stones; you deify the scientist for his superficial knowledge of the inner human mechanism.
Can all the scientists in the world produce a human being?
The intelligence with which the scientists have invented so many things is itself a spark of the Divine.
Man is a drop in the ocean of Consciousness.
His ego is a point in the limitless truth of Existence. Swami Sivananda
