August 20, 2025
On the first day of life, all babies look alike, but as they grow, each child begins to look like his parents. At the moment of conception, in that fertilized egg, there is already hidden the entire image of the future man or woman.
If you watch the way the body develops, you immediately understand the vital message of development. The pattern of development is not something imported from outside, it is already there. It you have ever cut a baby-coconut in half, you will see it is just a mass of flesh. If you were able to stand and watch it form, you would not observe anyone opening and filling it with water. Yet somehow, right in the middle of it, lovely coconut milk is produced. The shell forms. The outside is not tampered with at all. No one has made a hole in it and poured liquid into it.
In the same way, you and I too have our development, like all growth, from within, out. It is a constant unfolding. That is why in Indian mythology you have a lotus associated with all gods and goddesses. Divinity is not something which I can get from outside. It has merely to unfold.