Chapter XIV

Whatever be the teaching about the name or form of Iswara or God it is not very important. We need not quarrel over those distinctions and differences. Instruction on God is service enough. Bharathiyas do not accept the view held by others that the world and the Universe of which it is a part came into being some thousands of years ago and will meet with dissolution some time in the future. Nor do they accept the statement that the Universe was born out of the void (Soonya). They believe that Prakrithi or the Projection (Nature) is not born of vacuity but has always been full and complete (Poornam). It has neither beginning nor end; it has only gross and subtle forms. It is no sign of enlightenment to infer that since there is no evidence of the full and the complete, there must be a void in the beginning. There are other levels of existence to consider.

Man, for example, is not entirely the body; he has, in the gross body, a subtle body, the mind and another body too, more subtle than the mind, namely, jivatma, the Individualised Atma or Self. This last has neither beginning nor end, nor does it have any trace of death or decay. This is the truth that Bharathiyas believe in. This faith is based on the declaration of the Vedas themselves. We close our eyes when we worship God. We do not try to discover God outside us by raising our faces and looking upwards. Others accept that their scriptures were written by Divinely inspired persons, but Bharathiyas believe that the Vedas are the authentic voice of God emerging from the hearts of sages.