Story 73 - Infinity

There was a small child that was never shown a looking glass. (In India small children are not shown looking glasses). This small baby once happened to crawl into the room of his father, and there was a looking glass lying on the floor, with one end of it leaning against the wall and the other end resting upon the ground. This little baby crawled up to the looking glass, and lo! There he sees a baby, little child dear little baby. (You know, children are always attracted by children. If you have a child and you go to your friend's house with it, when you go to talk with your friend, the child will at once make friends with the other children of the house). So this child saw in the looking glass a child of its own size. He went up to him and when he was moving up to the child in the mirror, the latter moved up to him also. He was delighted. He found that the child in the mirror was on friendly terms, liked him just as much as he liked the child in the mirror. Their noses met. He put his nose against the mirror and the child in the mirror also drew his nose up to his nose; their noses touched each other. Their lips touched. He put his hands on the mirror and the child in the mirror also extended his hands to him, as if he was going to shake hands with him; but when the hands of this baby-were on those in the mirror, the mirror fell flat on the ground, and broke into two pieces. Now the child saw that instead of one child there were two children in the mirror. His mother, in the other room, heard this noise and came running to the room of her husband, and there seeing that the husband was not there, but the child was making havoc with the articles in the room, and had broken the mirror, she came up to him menacingly, in a threatening manner as if she was about to strike him. But you know, children know better, they know threats, frowns and browbeating of their mothers mean nothing. They know it through experience. The child, instead of being frightened at the words of the mother, which were "What have you done, what have you done, what aie you doing here?", took these words not in the sense of threat or frown, but in good sense. He said, "O, I have created two, I have made two." The child created two children out of one child. There was originally one child only that was talking to the one child in the mirror, and now this child made two children. A small child became the father of two children even before he was of age. He said, “I have made two; I have made two." The mother smiled and took the child up in her arms, took him to her own room.

Take up these two pieces of looking glass, break them, spare them not, you will get more looking glasses; break these pieces into four pieces and you will get four children. Now the small child by breaking these four pieces of glass into eight pieces could create eight children. Any number of children might by created that way. But we ask, "Does that real Divinity, does that real child increase or decrease by the breakage of the mirrors?" It neither increases nor decreases. The increase and decrease take place only with looking glasses. There is no increase in the child that you see in the looking glass, that remains the same. How can the infinite be increased? If the infinity increases, it is not infinity. How can infinity decrease? If it decreases, it is not infinity.

MORAL: Infinity neither increases nor decreases. It is beyond all change. The form may increase or decrease but the Substratum, the Divinity remains the same.

Vol. 1 (34-35)