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The body is a machine with the five elements - space, air, fire, water and earth - as its components. God is playing with it, Himself unseen.

The body is a tree; love of the Self is the root; desires are the branches it sends forth; qualities, attributes, modes of behaviour based on basic nature are the flowers issuing therefrom; joy and grief are the fruits it offers.

The human body is a world in itself. Blood flows through and animates every part of the body. God is flowing in and through and activating every spot in the world.

There is only one Law guiding and guarding this world - the Law of Love. Each nation or community has joy or grief, good life or bad, decided by the derived from its activities. The 'bad' too is in fact 'good' in reverse. It serves to teach what has to be avoided. It would not be 'bad' for all time; it is ever short-lived. Neither 'bad' nor 'good' can be pronounced as 'absolutely unrelieved' states. Vidya reveals and makes clear that 'good' and 'bad' are only the reactions caused by the failings and feelings of the mind of man.

One must be able to judge the difference between one 'good thing' and another that seems to us to be 'better'. If one cannot do so, one will hold on to the first thing that strikes him as good, discarding the rest. But it must be understood that the 'better' is not harmful to the good. Just as 'unrighteousness' prods man to cultivate 'righteousness', troubles induce man to manifest compassion and charity. Compassion has as its inevitable seed, suffering. If there were no wrong and no suffering, man would have become either stock or stone. One who has no capacity to weigh and to respond to the call of agony and pain is like a blind person who cannot distinguish between what is good and what is bad. Discriminationless people behave in this blind manner. Next