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Divinity is a Play and Divine the Way
play. And restore back to that original state or a state of true self / purity it can be nothing less than Divine that can pave us the way.
5. Sri. I.Chalapathi Rao
Manifestation is a Divine Play - an introduction: As we observe our immediate surrounding we find various animate life forms exhibiting activity while the inanimate forms exhibiting inactivity. If Divinity is the play, then everything both animate and inanimate should be Divine. Master, in this message, talks about the universal pervasiveness of the Divine. In order to understand this, it is necessary to bring in the concept of Consciousness. A stone is a grossened state of consciousness while the animated beings are the non grossened state of consciousness. This obviously leads a premise that there are numerous states of consciousness, the subtlest being called as God or centre. There is no limit to the subtleness and verily the path to Divinity is a journey towards infinity.
Center / Base of Divine Play: Master Defines God as Zero or centre of all creation, it is the Base from which everything has proceeded out. To quote in His own words from Dawn of Reality “Just as every circle must have a centre, so must this vast circle of manifestation have a centre or base. If we are able to discover it we may possibly find a clue for the solution of our problem. The whole of the science of mathematics rests upon the little base, the zero. Now for this limitless universe we have to trace out a zero or base from which all planes of existence have started. Again the centre of a circle, if observed minutely, is in itself another smaller finer circle. As such it must have another still finer centre for it. The same process continues up to infinity. In other words each of the finer or smaller circles serves as centre of a bigger
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