While engaged in any particular action on the gross plane, he is simultaneously working on all the other inner planes. His working on the inner planes is effortless and self-acting; but on the gross plane, by the very nature of its grossness, it involves effort and exertion for every action. However, quite unlike the actions of ordinary limited men, the Avatar's every action on the gross plane brings about numberless and far-reaching results in the various planes of consciousness.
As a rule, each action of an ordinary person is motivated by a solitary aim, serving a solitary purpose. It can, as it were, hit only one target at a time, bringing about one specific result. In the case of the Avatar, however, a single action brings about a network of diverse results for all persons and objects, he being the center of each one.
The Avatar's action on the gross plane is analogous to the operation of a main switch of an electric powerhouse. If well planned, the sole act of putting on the switch can immediately and simultaneously release immense forces through many channels, putting into action varied and numerous branches of service, with results relative to the capacity and need of each unit. For example, at one and the same time it can propel into action various factories and fans, trains and trolleys, and supply illumination through a million bulbs spread out in several towns and villages.
Like this seemingly insignificant exertion of pressing on the switch that can have such far-reaching significant results, the physical action of the Avatar causes, in its wake, repercussions on all planes, effortlessly evoking overtones in each sphere, bringing about multi-sided results on every plane. Thus an ordinary action on the part of the Avatar becomes a starting point for a chain of working and results on both the natural and supernatural levels, while the side-effects of the complex interactions caused by release of the inner forces can include the entire universe in its range and effect.
Everything in the universe is, and from the beginning has been, a materialization of the divine whim working out automatically and effortlessly through the impersonal law. This expression, as the Divine Will, operates invincibly without effort and without deflection or defeat. It is merely like unfolding on the screen of Creation, the film that has captured the pattern issued from the original divine whim in all its consecutive sequences and events.