From Dust to Diamond | Speaking Tree | December 4th  2011

A Cow gives milk. This is a universally accepted fact. But there are few who pause to think how it accomplishes this useful feat. In fact, it can produce milk only because it has the capacity to convert grass into milk. It is this unique ability to convert a simple substance into a more complex one which makes it possible in God’s world for it to produce the precious liquid we call milk.

   A similar capacity is found in trees and plants. From them we receive grain, vegetables and fruits. But under what conditions does this happen? It happens when the plant receives water and nutrients from the earth and then converts these into vegetables and fruits. A lower entity is admitted into the plant, but with internal mechanism, it produces it in the form of a higher entity.

   The same applies to the life of man. A process of conversion has to take place, if results are to be produced. To attain success, man has to take stimulus from his environment, both positive and negative, his education, whether good or bad, his moral and physical inheritance and ‘convert’ these into success in much the same way that a plant converts nutrients from the soil into fruits. Even from his failures, he has to extract such experience as well set him on a better and more successful course for the future.

   Such is the law of the world, both for mankind and for other living things. So, whoever has the capacity to resize opportunities when they come his way and convert the adverse into favourable circumstances achieves success, while those who show themselves incapable of this feat are doomed to failure.
  The cow has been created by God as a sign of His will. It shows us what God requires of us in this world. We may take in ‘grass’, but we must give out ‘milk’. Even when people wrong us, we are required to convert that wrong into a right. And when we are beset by adversity, we are required to turn it around.