The universe is an endless masquerade:
For nothing here is utterly what it seems;
It is a dream-fact vision of a truth
Which but for the dream would not be wholly true,
A phenomenon stands out significant
Against dim backgrounds of eternity;
We accept its face and pass by all it means;
A part is seen, we take it for the whole.
Sri Aurobindo
Savitri, Book I, Canto IV, page 61.
Does the Divine exist in all things, even in the dustbin?
The whole universe is the manifestation of the Divine, but a manifestation which begins with a total unconsciousness of its origin and rises little by little towards this consciousness.
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Do not forget even for a moment that all this has been created by Him out of Himself. Not only is He present in everything, but also He is everything. The differences are only in expression and manifestation.
If you forget this you lose everything.
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There is no end to the wonders of the universe.
The more we get free from the limits of our small ego, the more these wonders disclose themselves to us.
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The Lord will possess His universe perfectly only when the universe will have become the Lord.
The Mother,
Words of the Mother III, CWM volume 15, page 5.