The Supreme Power That Creates, Manifests, Sustains and Guides the Universal Creation

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We go through our daily lives,
busy ourselves with earning a

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living, supporting our families,
maintaining our bodies,

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entertaining ourselves, arguing,
fighting, gossiping and

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following up on hobbies or
passions we are engaged in.

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We close ourselves into a narrow
and limited existence and feel

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content that we are doing
something important or useful,

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or at least whiling away our
time between birth and death

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with no further meaning.
We may feel helplessly caught up

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in a life we do not understand,
or alternatively, we may feel

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powerful and proud in our
accomplishments in our lifetime.

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Few are those who look beyond
this round of existence to view

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the wider universe and the
potential significance of our

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lives.
In terms of that larger

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framework, astronomers explore
the vastness of outer space with

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ever more powerful instruments.
They report that we can observe

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up to about 93 billion light
years distance, but we do not

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know the full size of the
universe beyond what can be

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observed.
They report there are somewhere

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between 200 billion and 2
trillion galaxies in the

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universe, a wide range due to
the difficulty of seeing

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galaxies that are faintly
visible to their instruments.

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The Galaxy in which our planet
resides, we call the Milky Way

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Galaxy.
It is not particularly prominent

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in size or number of stars
compared to other galaxies,

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astronomers have observed.
Astronomers estimated that there

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are between 100 billion stars
and 400 billion stars in our

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Galaxy alone, of which our Sun
is not a particularly prominent

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star and it is stuck on a
peripheral arm of the Milky Way

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Galaxy.
Nowadays, scientists are

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speaking about other universes
as they uncover more facts about

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the nature of existence.
If we reflect even briefly on

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the magnitude of all of this
creation and the orderly nature

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of how it functions, it becomes
inconceivable to think that it

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is all about our daily struggle
for existence, our enjoyments,

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our arguments, and our little
life On our little planet.

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Whirling around a little sun in
a little solar system, in a

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little Galaxy, in an enormous
universe filled with hundreds of

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billions of galaxies and
trillions of stars, ostensibly

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having, in many cases, their own
solar systems and planets, can

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we truly say we understand the
meaning of our existence?

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It is like a single skin cell on
one foot trying to comprehend

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the complexity and size of the
human body and make

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pronouncements about the meaning
of it all.

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Could that skin cell understand
that it is part of a unified

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being of a magnitude beyond its
greatest sense?

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The mind cannot encompass or
comprehend either the enormity

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or the complexity of the
universal manifestation.

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When confronted with this, the
only reasonable approach is to

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quiet the mind and widen the
consciousness to receive the

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force embodied in all that
exists and identify with that

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force in the Rig Veda Mandala
Tan Sukta 129 The hymn of

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Creation quote.
Who knows, in truth?

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Who would tell us here below?
From where was it born?

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Whence this surging creation the
gods stand below this surging

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out abroad?
Who knows then from whence this

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took birth, that from where this
creation has sprung, does that

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even contain it or does it not?
He who is the overlord in the

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Supreme Infinity, does he even
know where he too knows not?

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End Quote.
Ricks 6 and seven, translated by

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Nolini Cantagupta.
The entire creation is one

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Supreme Being, Creator, created,
container and contained.

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We are one with the myriad of
stars, galaxies and the universe

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itself.
All that we see around us, as

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the Upanishads also point out,
are one with us.

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Thou art that, Sriorvindo
writes.

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Quote the guru to the student.
Lift your eyes towards the sun.

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He is there in that wonderful
heart of life and light and

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splendour.
Watch at night the innumerable

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constellations glittering like
so many solemn.

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Watch fires of the Eternal in
the limitless silence which is

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no void, but throbs with the
presence of a single calm and

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tremendous existence.
See there, Orion, with his sword

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and belt shining as he shown to
the Aryan Fathers 10,000 years

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ago at the beginning of the
Aryan era, serious in his

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splendor, Lyra, sailing billions
of miles away in the ocean of

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space.
Remember that these innumerable

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worlds, most of them mightier
than our own, are whirling with

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indescribable speed at the back
of that ancient of Days whither

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none but He knoweth, and yet
that they are a million times

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more ancient than your Himalaya,
more steady than the roots of

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your hills, and shall so remain
until He at his will shakes them

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off like withered leaves from
the eternal tree of the

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universe.
Imagine the endlessness of time,

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realize the boundlessness of
space, and then remember that

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when these were worlds were not,
he was the same as now, and when

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these are not, He shall be still
the same.

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Perceive that beyond Lyra he is,
and far away in space, where the

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stars of the Southern Cross
cannot be seen, still he is

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there.
And then come back to the earth

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and realize who this he is.
He is quite near to you.

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See Yonder old man who passes
near you, crouching and bent

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with his stick.
Do you realize that it is God

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who is passing there?
A child runs laughing in the

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sunlight.
Can you hear Him in that

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laughter?
Nay, he is nearer still to you.

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He is in you, He is you.
It is yourself that burns

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Yonder, millions of miles away
in the infinite reaches of

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space, that walks with confident
steps on the tumbling billows of

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the ethereal sea.
It is you who have set the stars

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in their places and woven the
necklace of the Suns, not with

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hands, but by that Yoga, that
silent, actionless, impersonal

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will which has set you here
today, listening to yourself in

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me.
Look up, O child of the ancient

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Yoga, and be no longer a
trembler and a doubter.

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Fear not, doubt not, grieve not,
for in your apparent body is one

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who can create and destroy
worlds with a breath.

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End Quote Reference Sri
Aurobindo and the Mother Powers

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within Chapter 23, Power
Supreme, pages 170 to 171.