Page 51 - Liberal Exposition of Pranahuti Aided Meditation

aspect of it, what is the other aspect of it? Everyone of us, everyone of us is an expression of the Divine. Everyone of us is an expression of the Divine and no one here is either superior or inferior so far as the expression of the Divine is concerned. You may be a good architect, I may be a good artist, you may be a good songster or I may a good sports man, it does not matter much but in each one of us this capacity, which is the expression of the Divine is seen rather than our own expression. Our expressions are our ideas but so far as this particular concept of expression of the Divine is concerned every one of us is an expression of the Divine and the Divine resides in us. Divine resides in us from top to toe, from top to toe he resides but if you have got to locate Him, He is best located in the heart which is the meeting point between the animate and inanimate, between the matter and the spirit, between bad blood and good blood. That is the common point, so in this place you feel the Divinity more.
Some of us try to feel the beating of the heart. It is not very necessary that you should feel the beating of the heart, what you should feel is the presence of the Divine, whatever it may mean without any adjective but don’t try to put God into a particular pocket. When you try to put it you are restricting Divinity to that, that means you are curtailing the freedom of God to be something else than that. When you give a form you are almost compelling that he is put into that jacket, He cannot be anything other than that, He refuses to get into any such jacket, He is not any one of these things, all that we know He Is and something more athya thista dasangulam - what ever you know He Is, plus something more. It is a very paradoxical statement in the Vedas you will find that God is, when you try to know, the Purusha, He has covered the whole universe, having covered the whole universe and everything that can be known, He has extended by another ten inches so it’s a paradox. Having done everything, athya thista dasangulam is a very very profound concept. God refuses to fit into anything and then He is something more, this something more is expressing Himself itself in us, where? where the two opposites meet. That is the reason why we take the heart and then we say that if we put the Divine thought here and since heart is the organ which is involved in the purification of your blood then we take advantage of this purification also. This is the reason why it goes to that, now that is not our point here.