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seen truth or God or whatsoever you call it, and from where all have a right to see it.
But it is not necessary for a seed, just because it is a seed, to become a tree. Every seed is entitled to be a tree, but they don't become. Although the seed has the potential to be a tree, it is also necessary to sow it and to fertilize it. It is necessary for the seed to break up, to disintegrate and to die as a seed so that it can become a tree. Only that seed is transformed into a tree which is ready to disintegrate and disappear into the soil. And if we look at the tree and the seed together, placed side by side, it is difficult to believe, how a tiny seed could turn into a large tree. It seems impossible.
It seems impossible, how a little seed is trans formed into a large tree. We have always had this feeling whenever we looked at men like Krishna or Buddha. Standing near Krishna we felt that it was impossible to be like him. So we said, "You are God, and we are just ordinary persons; we cannot be like you. You are an avatar, an incarnation, and we are just petty people who can only crawl anyhow. It is not in our power to be like you." Whenever a Buddha or a Mahavira has crossed our path, we touched their feet and said, "You are a teerthankara, an incarnation, a son of God, and we are very ordinary people." If a seed could speak it would say the same thing to the tree, "You are God and I am an ordinary seed; how can I be like you?" How can a seed believe that a large tree is hidden in it?
But it is a fact that what is a large tree today was once a tiny seed, and the tiny seed of today will turn into a large tree tomorrow.
Infinite possibilities lie hidden within each of us. But so long as we are not aware of them, no scriptures and no godmen, however loudly they say it, can prove their existence. And it is as it should be, because it is sheer deception to believe what we don't know. It is better for us to say that we don't know that God is.
But it is equally true that a few persons have known God. And a few others have known them, and their whole lives have been transformed through it; they have seen celestial flowers blooming all around
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