WHEN WILL WE EVER LEARN? ----- Ordinary Mortal or Divine Child? Although there are some external differences among human beings in language, colour, etc., in all essential matters they are from the same source, all have originated from the singular entity, Parama Puruśa. They differ only externally and apparently. We should hear the language of heart and sentiment, not the language of the tongue. No language can claim to be an original language. Neither English, nor Bengali, nor Tagalog. Nine hundred years ago there was no English language; 1500 years ago there was no Bengali; 800 years ago there was no Angika, Maithili or Assamese. Modern English is a mixture of Scottish, old Norman, Anglo-Saxon, Brighton, Celt, Latin and Greek. Until King Alfred the Great, there was no approved standard of English vocabulary. Bengali consists of Sanskrit roots and many English, Japanese, Portugese, [Persian] and Arabic words. Tagalog is composed of Mandarin, Cantonese, Indonesian, Malay and Sanskrit. No race can claim the absolute purity of its blood. Hitler’s claim of the purity of [Aryan] blood misled people. Europeans are many races: Nordic, Mediterranean, Alpine, Greek, etc. Indians are also many races: Austric, Austrico-Negroid, Dravidian, Mongoloid, Negroid, etc. No race is perfectly pure without any blending. Everywhere there is universal blending. There is no single original race or language anywhere in the world. So human society is a singular entity. All the merits and demerits of society are ours, they are common patrimony. It is foolish to claim that the merits are ours and the demerits theirs. [Bábá called one Bengali Margi and told him to meditate on Supreme Consciousness and keep his mind fixed on his anáhata cakra (heart centre):] Is your heart mundane or divine? [Margi: “Divine, Bábá.”] Is it universal or Bengali? [Margi: “It is universal, Bábá.”] [Then Bábá called one Australian ácárya to stand up.] Now see his heart – is it Australian or universal? [Margi: “Universal, Bábá.”] Is it mundane or godly? [Margi: “Godly.”] Is he an ordinary mortal or a divine child? [Margi: “He is a divine child.”] [Bábá told the Australian ácárya to touch the Margi.] Do you feel the divine touch? [Margi: “Yes, Bábá.”] [Bábá told the Australian ácárya to sit down, and called to a Filipino Margi to stand up.] What do you feel? Is he an ordinary man or a divine being? [Margi: “He is a divine being, Bábá.”] Is his heart Filipino or universal? [Margi: “Universal, Bábá.”] [Then Bábá asked an Indian of the Angika community (of Jamalpur area) to touch the Margi.] Do you feel a human touch or a divine touch? [Margi: A divine touch, Bábá.] Is his heart Angika or universal? [Margi: Universal, Bábá.] Is he an ordinary mortal or a divine child? [Margi: “A divine child, Bábá.”] In this universe all these entities are divine entities, and people must only realize it. Nobody is helpless and alone in this universe. We all have mundane, supramundane, and spiritual relationships with the universe. So it is the bounden duty of human beings to expand their mental arena, because basically all these infinite entities have one goal – the goal of the Supreme Entity. Human entities must expand themselves so much that they can go beyond the fetters of limitation. There should not be any inferiority or superiority complex in anybody. Those who preach individual and racial superiority are committing sins against human dharma [human spiritual nature]. Like earth, air, and water, this dharma is common to one and all – and all will have to become one with that Universal Entity. [Bábá ended the discourse by quoting the words of the American poet Carl Sandburg:] There is only one man in the worldand his name is All Men. There is only one woman in the worldand her name is All Women. There is only one child in the worldand the child’s name is All Children. 1969, Ranchi
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