Atma is the only entity that is eternal. It is beyond birth and death. It is changeless. There is a
beginning and end for everything else in this universe, except the Atma. Hence, one has to develop
firm faith in this Atma Tathwa.
The Atma Tathwa or divine Consciousness permeates the entire Universe. Not a blade of grass
can move without this divine Consciousness. Everything in this Universe is the reflection of that
divine Consciousness. The same Atma Tathwa dwells in all human beings irrespective of religion,
caste, creed, and nationality.
Unfortunately, today we tend to forget this true and eternal Atma Tathwa and develop faith in
the ephemeral world. We weave a web of imagination around the pleasures that this transient
world would offer. Ultimately, we land ourselves in sorrow and difficulties.
The Atma Tathwa is the only entity that is true, eternal, and changeless. Everything else undergoes
change from time to time. Even the human body passes through different stages like
childhood, adolescence, youth and old age, but the individual remains the same through all these
changes.
- Sri Sathya Sai Baba, Discourse on 21-Feb-2009
