Chapter V: Oneness of God and Trust in God
He who sees the writing on paper, sees the blackening of white paper by ink. (1) He asks the paper : 1 have seen your face white and bright but why do I find it now black? The paper says :
How is your judgment that you are asking me this question ? I have not made my face black but the ink pot was filled up with ink, the ink travelled to me and made my face black. He said : you have spoken the truth.
(2) He asked the ink about it which said : You are unjust to me. I was living peacefully in inkpot but the pen forcefully took me out unjustly and separated me from my parent body. The pen is responsible for it and not myself. He said : You have spoken the truth.
(3) He asked the pen : why have you taken out ink from the ink pot and thus have done injustice to it ? The pen said : Ask the hand and fingers about it. I was a reed by the river side. The hand cut the reed by a knife, cut me off from my parent body, severed my head and dived it into ink-pot Go from me and ask it which did injustice to me. He said : You have spoken the truth.
(4) Then he asked the hand about its oppression on the pen and it said : I am nothing but a piece of flesh with blood. Have you sees a lump of flesh moving independently ? I am only a conveyance subject to order. Strength rides over me and orders me to do a thing. He said : You have spoken the truth.
(5) He asked the strength : Why are you using the hand as servant and conveyance ? The strength said : Dpn't rebuke me.
Do you think that I have oppressed the hand riding over it? I do not move it, nor do I order it. I sleep and remain quiet till a representative comes to me. He compels me to do a thing, The name of the representative is Will. He wakes me up from sleep and compels me to do an act. Then he said : You have spoken the truth.
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(6) He asked the Will : What thing encourages you to move the strength and compels it to do the act ? The will said : Don't purtish me in haste as I have got an excuse. I do not rise myself, rather I am caused to rise by the order of intellect, the messenger of knowledge. He presents me in mind and Order me : Awaken the strength. I am subject to intellect and knowledge. It is my bounden duty to obey it. I have got no way to go against it. So ask knowledge about it. He said : You have spoken the truth.
(7) He asked knowledge about it. It said : I have been imprinted on the tablet of soul and I am the light of soul. I have got no light of my own and I have been lighted. I am only a tablet set firmly in soul. I have got no freedom. Ask the pen as without pen, nothing can be imprinted.