Elucidation of Objectives — Page 61
Tau di h-e-Mar a m 61 like His organs and are meant to carry out the impera- tives and intentions of God Almighty, the Cause of all causes. The universe and its constituent parts are not self-existent; they derive strength and substance from the Supreme Soul—God, quite like all the bodily func- tions which exist because of life. To the Supreme Existent or Spirit, this universe is constituted, figura- tively speaking, of so many surrogate limbs or organs. Some of these existents are in a manner of speaking the light of Divine countenance. Internally or externally, consistent with the Divine Will, they serve as the bea- con. Some objects are like His hands, as it were, some are like His feet and some others like His breath. In short, this cosmic plurality in relation to God is, again in a manner of speaking, a kind of bodily expression whose life and splendour emanate from the Supreme Spirit—God, the Sustainer. Whenever God, the Sus- tainer, wills a volitional movement it is followed by a corresponding movement as desired by Him in all or some of the constituent parts of the physical universe. In order to pictorially visualize the implications of the foregoing statement, let us imagine that the Supreme Sustainer of the universe is indeed the Supreme Being who has an infinite number of hands and feet; their number is uncountable, and their breadth and width limitless. Like an ‘octopus’, as it were, the Supreme Being has tentacles reaching out to all corners of the