Elucidation of Objectives — Page 62
Tau di h-e-Mar a m 62 universe and functioning as its gravitational pull. In- deed, these are the self same organs also known as the universe. Whenever the Sustainer of the universe wills a movement in part or in full, these so called organs are also bound to move accordingly; indeed He carries out all His commands and intentions through these organs, without using any other means. In short, this is only a simple example of the great spiritual truth about which it is asserted that each part of the universe is subject to the Divine Will and, like a faithful and humble servant, symbolizes the realization of God's latent objectives and is busy implementing the Divine imperatives in total submission to His Will. But this submission is not of the kind which is based on force and coercion. On the contrary, everything is attracted to God by a kind of magnetic pull. It seems that every particle has such a built-in tendency to incline towards God, as do the different limbs towards the body. Hence this alone is the truth, indeed the stark truth that the entire universe is like the organs of the Supreme Being. That is why He is called the Sustainer of all the worlds; just as life sustains the body, so does God sustain the entire uni- verse. Were it not so, the entire cosmic order would turn into utter disorder and chaos. Everything the Supreme Sustainer wills, be it overt or latent, temporal or spiritual, is expressed only through these intermediaries created for this purpose by God