I picked up this simple yet deeply insightful story translated from Hindi that invites us to reflect on the unseen, subtle forces that drive the world around us, reminding us that from the simplest, most unassuming beginnings, the grandest creations can unfold.

Once a master was sitting with his disciples under a huge banyan tree, he asked them, “brahmacharis, go and bring a fruit of this banyan tree.” Disciples got up and brought a fruit of that banyan tree. The master then asked, “crack open this fruit.” They immediately opened the fruit. “Now, what do you see inside?” the master asked.
“Master, there are very many tiny seeds in there.” the disciples replied. The master responded, “ok, take one of these tiny seeds and break it open.”
They cracked one of the tiny seeds. The master asked, “What do you see inside?’” “Guru Dev, it is empty, there is nothing inside”, the disciples replied. The master explained, “do you know, that this huge tree with all its branches, with so many leaves, and so many flowers and fruits, has come out of this emptiness, from this nothingness? It comes from this unmanifest level of creation”
The master explained to them, “from this attributeless, formless state emerges the whole expressed creation with all its attributes and forms.”
“Modern physicists say that the whole creation happens from this vacuum state of quantum physics.”
To sum up in other words, in this lesson shared by His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a master guides his disciples to understand the profound origins of creation. This story teaches the spiritual principle that the tangible world emerges from the intangible, attributeless source.