Suppose this is the Ocean [Paramatma]. We are all atmas [souls] in it, and our bodies are bubbles. They are infinite drops in the ocean. Does even one drop differ from the ocean? No. But in the ordinary ocean bubbles appear on the surface. In this Ocean [Paramatma], they do not. The bubbles are there, but inside the Ocean.
In the beginning, the Ocean was quite calm and absolutely rippleless. By the urge of the lahar [original whim], like a breeze, bubbles were created.
But, in this Ocean of Paramatma, that lahar and also the "urge" are both inside the ocean. So their movements cannot create waves. This is the reason why no movements appear on the surface. Keep this point very clear in your minds.
There is another important point to be clearly understood. If you grasp it properly, although it's a bit difficult, everything will be clear. It is about the winding and the unwinding, that is, the seven twists [shown in the chart during the soul's journey from "A" to "Z"].
Pointing toward himself, Baba continued:
Think, this body is the soul. This is merely for explanation, because, in fact, it is not so. The body is not the soul.
In the beginning, consciousness is like the opening of the eyes.
Baba closed and then slightly opened his eyes.
In the beginning, the soul is there, but the "eyes" are closed. So I could not see myself.
Now what happens? That "urge" that was all along latent in me to see myself gets a lahar [whim] or motion. For example, in Knowledge, ignorance is latent. In the Infinite, the finite is latent. All the opposites of God one can conceive of were latent in God, because God is also his own opposite, since nothing exists but God. So in the "not-knowing" state of God, its opposite urge of "knowing Himself" was latent.
So, with the first lahar, the eyes were slightly opened, and they naturally fell on the objects that they confronted facing them. For some time they saw light. With the eyes opened, as the soul continued gazing at the light, it got tired, and its body got a twist. With that twist, the eyes that were slightly opened in the beginning, became slightly more open, and it could see a little more than before. Thus, as it continued getting more twists, one after the other, during the evolutionary process from stone to human, the eyes became more and more widely opened and could see more, until the soul got a big twist — the human form — when its eyes were fully opened, and it could see the sky and the stars, the world of phenomena, and so forth.