What is Knowledge : Ch-5-18.

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Chapter 5: Maintaining One's Position-18.

Every cell of the body participates in this process of growth, and it is not that the nose grows today, and the ears grow tomorrow, and the legs grow the day after tomorrow.

There is a perpetual total action taking place in the whole organism when it grows.

This is evolution as we see it daily, with our own eyes.


Likewise, evolution in a cosmical, natural, physical, or astronomical sense is also a total movement of the universe.

Remember what I told you a second before : -

Inasmuch as the evolution you have observed in the growth of your own personality is total, and the universal evolution is total, and also at the same time because you are inseparably related to the universe in every way, your evolution and the universal evolution are one and the same.

Your evolution cannot be independent of the universal evolution.


Therefore, to grow into a state of perfection, towards which is the movement of the universe by way of evolution, you have to participate as an entire personality, and not as a partial individual, with this requirement of the universe.

All the layers of the universe are inside you.

The human being is a cross-section of the cosmic structure.

Thus, whatever is in you, is in the universe; whatever is in the universe, is also in you.

Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  .....




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