Daily Meditation: Sunday, November 11, 2001

Imagine a man who would visit a foreign country and …

11/11/2001

Imagine a man who would visit a foreign country and proclaim, 'Gather together, call out the fanfares, pay me tribute, I will explain the reason of my visit...' People would laugh at him... and perhaps even put him away somewhere. People will not acknowledge somebody who appears in this way in his own name. But now here comes an ambassador from the United States for example; even if he is small, puny and sickly, he is welcomed with great honors. Fanfares play, soldiers parade, everyone bows before him, because he comes on behalf of the United States; and since the United States is a vast and rich country recognized in the world, it is to the United States, through him, that they pay tribute. The same thing applies to a human being in relation to the luminous entities of nature. If a man presents himself on his own authority without having anything on him that commends him to their attention, they will not recognize him. They ask him, 'Where do you come from? Show us your credentials!' And since he has nothing to show that is greater or more revealing than himself, they send him back. But if he bears signs of his conformity with the divine order, they will recognize heaven through him, greet him and give a reception in his honor.