Infinite is His power

The Gita clearly explains the nature and working of the entire creation comprising many worlds and forms of nature, beings and objects, both animate and inanimate. In a discourse, Swami Gautamananda drew attention to the fact that the Supreme Brahman is the integrating force, the source of infinite power and strength that pervades and sustains all of this with clockwork precision. “I sustain and support all the beings on the earth because of my spiritual power,” says the Lord.

Every exclusive manifestation of Nature vibrates to proclaim the glory and greatness of His infinite power of consciousness. All the laws of physics and space are put in place by His power. The Lord endows the sun, the moon, the earth, the stars, planets, etc, with the power to stay in their orbit and perform the respective functions allotted to each of them. The light of the sun that illumines the whole universe, and the light which comes from the moon and from various luminous bodies like fire, lightning, etc., all have the source in God.

The sun is able to shed light and to emit heat owing to the power of God. The sun’s temperature and seasonal variations are all maintained by His power. His vital energy and power pervades the earth. He is the cause of the moon’s cool light that is conducive for plant growth and vegetation. God thus helps to sustain life and he also provides food for all through the plants He sustains. Moreover, God is ever present as Vaishwanara, the heat or fire in every being that helps to digest the four kinds of food with the prana and apana breaths. He is the in-dweller in the hearts of all beings shining as the consciousness in every jivatma. Without God’s power everything would collapse.