March 6, 2026
What is the soul? A little caterpillar was sitting, on a leaf right in front of us. With one end on the leaf it stretched out its other end, probing for a foothold on another leaf. As soon as it had this foothold, it lifted its other end and passed on to the new leaf. Even so does the soul. Neither the soul nor the body was ever born. They are in a continuous process called recycling.
There is one shakti (power) which does everything. It is not as though one God delivers me here, another preserves me and the third carries me away. One power that sustains me also brings about the change known as death. There is only one power in the whole universe. When it functions in a certain manner there is conception, birth. Functioning as the multiplication of cells, it is preservation, living. When it's function is disintegration it is called death, which in reality is merely “going out of sight”, for what exists cannot be nonexistent. When this power creates, it is called Brahma Shakti; as the preserver, it is known as Vishnu Shakti and as the destroyer (redeemer) Shiva Shakti.