Glory of God and Exalted Souls-  Brahmalina Sri Jayadayal Goyandka

Unbounded is the glory of God, who is a storehouse of entire strength, power, glory, energy and vigor, nay, who is capable of bringing the impossible into the domain of possibility. Really speaking, the true nature and glory of God cannot be expressed in words. He alone knows God, who realizes His true nature. Even he cannot describe it in words. There is a parable illustrating this truth. Suppose a man of this mortal plane happened to reach a subterranean region where the sun, the moon and the stars are never to be seen and frightful darkness constantly prevails in consequence. When he had been there for a pretty long time he inquired of the denizens of that realm whether daylight never dawned there. They did not understand what he meant by daylight and inquired of him the meaning of it. He explained to them that by daylight he meant the flood of light that enveloped the quarters when the sun rose. Inquired as to what he meant by the sun, he told them that by the sun he meant a spherical body that appeared in the heavens in the form of a colossal mass of light.

Thereupon the denizens of that realm raised in the sky an electric bulb of thousands of watts of electric power; and lighting it, they inquired whether the sun was something like that bulb. The man, however, replied that the bulb was nothing in comparison to the sun. They, however, urged that a stronger light was out of the question. The man, however, ordered to give them an ocular proof of what he said if they but sent anyone with him to the terrestrial plane. Thereupon they despatched one of them with him. When the man returned to the mortal plane in the company of that denizen of the subterranean regions, the earth was enveloped with the murky darkness of midnight. 

© `Kalyana-Kalpataru’ (January 2002) published by Jagdish Prasad Jalan for Gobind Bhawan Karyalaya, Gita Press, Gorakhpur.

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