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cannot exist without the particle. The whole will not be whole without the particle -- something will be missing, there will be a gap. So even the smallest blade of grass is as great as any sun.
Once you start looking for the great you will find it everywhere. You will not find a place where the great is not. That is one of the greatest insights of modern physics. Searching for the smallest they have stumbled upon the greatest source of energy. Looking for the atom they have discovered atomic energy. The small only appears small, it is an appearance. It contains the great.
And you cannot find the great directly. Whenever you search you will find the small: the small is the way of the great to express itself. You cannot see the ocean -- you always see this wave or that wave. Only waves are seen; the ocean remains unseen. The ocean has to be inferred because the waves cannot exist without it. So we see the small parts -- the man, the woman, the tree, the mountain, the particle of dust, a drop of water; but these are just forms. Penetrate deeply into them and they become doors, doors to the infinite.
That infinity is called 'Asima', 'the great'. Look deeply, within and without, and you will find Him.
Hasibo -- a name of God. It means: one who absolutely satisfies. There are many satisfactions in life but they are all momentary. They are just like sandcastles: you make them, you have not even completed them, a breath of wind and they are gone. They are like paper boats: you prepare them with hard work and they all drown. Or they are like writing on water -- nothing remains, the whole effort is wasted.
Yes, a glimpse arrives but a glimpse is just a glimpse, it is not going to abide. It is just a dream. And we go on living, moving from one dream to another dream. One desire is fulfilled, there is a little bit of satisfaction, just a little bit -- just enough so that one can go on hanging around in the world -- and then another desire arises. That's how we have been hanging around in the world for centuries. But nothing really satisfies. One never comes to a moment when one can say 'Now I have arrived.' When one can say 'Now I have arrived',
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