AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ: "Have you heard this is an apple? Have you been told this is a tree?

Do you think this is the moon? and this the sun?

Have you told someone this is a little girl? and this is a little boy?

Well. But you and I can be very truthful to each other. And it seems to Me that, no matter what we name this or this or this or this or this or this, we still do not know what they Are. Truly, you and I don't know what even a single thing Is. Do you know what I Am? See? And I don't know what you Are, either. It is a Mystery. Doesn't it make you feel good to feel It?

Did you ever ask somebody where this or this or this came from, or how this or this or this came to be? Some say, "I don't know", and saying this makes them feel they are being very honest and truthful. Others say something such as "God made it", or "It comes from God". And such people are also being very honest and truthful when they say this.

How can they both be telling the truth? Well, because they are both telling you the same thing in different ways. You see, nobody—not Mom, or Dad, or Grandmother, or Grandfather, or big Sister, or big Brother, or teachers, or doctors, or soldiers, or athletes, or lawyers, or TV stars, or any people who are working, or any people who are playing, not even a President, not even a King or a Queen, not even people who love each other—nobody knows what even a single thing Is. It is a great and more-than-wonderful Mystery to everyone that anything is, or that we are. And whether somebody says "I don't know how anything came to be" or "God made everything", they are simply pointing to the feeling of the Mystery—of how everything is, but nobody knows what it really Is, or how it came to be.

As long as you go on feeling this Mystery, you feel free and full and happy—and you feel and act free and full and happy to others. This is the secret of being happy from the time you are small until the time you are old. . . .

Have you heard this is an apple? Have you been told this is a tree?

Do you think this is the moon? and this the sun?

Have you told someone this is a little girl? and this is a little boy?

Well. But you and I can be very truthful to each other. And it seems to Me that, no matter what we name this or this or this or this or this or this, we still do not know what they Are. Truly, you and I don't know what even a single thing Is. Do you know what I Am? See? And I don't know what you Are, either. It is a Mystery. Doesn't it make you feel good to feel It?

Did you ever ask somebody where this or this or this came from, or how this or this or this came to be? Some say, "I don't know", and saying this makes them feel they are being very honest and truthful. Others say something such as "God made it", or "It comes from God". And such people are also being very honest and truthful when they say this.

How can they both be telling the truth? Well, because they are both telling you the same thing in different ways. You see, nobody—not Mom, or Dad, or Grandmother, or Grandfather, or big Sister, or big Brother, or teachers, or doctors, or soldiers, or athletes, or lawyers, or TV stars, or any people who are working, or any people who are playing, not even a President, not even a King or a Queen, not even people who love each other—nobody knows what even a single thing Is. It is a great and more-than-wonderful Mystery to everyone that anything is, or that we are. And whether somebody says "I don't know how anything came to be" or "God made everything", they are simply pointing to the feeling of the Mystery—of how everything is, but nobody knows what it really Is, or how it came to be.

As long as you go on feeling this Mystery, you feel free and full and happy—and you feel and act free and full and happy to others. This is the secret of being happy from the time you are small until the time you are old. . . . "

[Excerpt from the children's book What, Where, When, How, Why, and Who To Remember To Be Happy by Avatar Adi Da Samraj]