Question: Sri Chinmoy, why is it that I feel more divinity in a flower than in a piece of wood? Isn't divinity in everything?

Sri Chinmoy: Divinity is in everything. But in some things or in some individuals, we see divinity more manifested. What you call darkness has inside it infinitesimal light. Again, there is no end to light: there is effulgent light, boundless light, infinite Light. Here you are seeing light. But this light can be immensely increased.

God is manifesting in and through me, in and through you, in and through everyone. In the flower-consciousness God wanted to establish a certain amount of beauty. God did not feel it necessary to make this wall or a piece of wood as beautiful as a flower. But that doesn’t mean that God is unkind to the wood or to the wall. No, only in a game or in a play, let us say, there will be a king and there will be a slave. Also, there will be ordinary people. All these different roles are necessary. You can’t have a play with nothing but kings. No, you will need kings, ministers, subjects and so forth in order to have a good play.

Here, also, many different things are necessary. If you want to appreciate God’s Beauty aspect, then He will put a flower, or the stars, or a most beautiful child in front of you. If you want to appreciate His Power aspect, then immediately God will bring an elephant or a lion in front of you. If you want to appreciate God’s Vastness, then immediately He will bring the vast sky in front of you, or the sea. Again, if God wants you to appreciate His infinitesimal, tiniest part, then He will put right in front of you an atom. So it is up to God what aspect of His He wants you to appreciate. God has all aspects; He has all attributes. But He has decided that He wants you to appreciate one particular aspect of Him more than other aspects. God has already decided whether you will appreciate His Beauty aspect, or Power aspect or some other aspect.

Again, today God may want you to appreciate His Beauty aspect, tomorrow He may want you to appreciate His Peace aspect and the day after tomorrow He may want you to appreciate His Power aspect. But whatever aspect you are meant to appreciate, God will put inside your consciousness that particular aspect.