What is the essential moral of the brahmin cobbler story because the huge tree is not literally present in the small seed?

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thank you when we hear the story of the Brahmin in the cobbler meeting Narada Muni the cobbler expresses the faith that the lord has put a giant tree in a tiny seed but actually it is not literal the tiny giant tree is in the seed there is only a template over there and it requires watering and extensive growth by which that seed will grow into a tree so what is the practical meaning or application of faith in this context answer firstly we look at the parallel the parallel is that the lord was said to be treading an elephant through the eye of a needle and the brahmin said this is impossible so then the cobbler said why is it not possible for the lord because he has done something like this also so now naturally there is a difference over there at that time the elephant is big in size the needle is small in size how is it possible whereas the tree when it is in seed form it is actually small but here the focus is not on specific details the focus is on the principle of the lord being capable of doing extraordinary things that which is normally impossible so it is certainly not that full seed is literally there full tree is literally in the seed but just as the lord can make a mechanism by which a tiny seed can contain the potentiality to go into a full tree or in other words the whole tree can be contained in potential essentially in a seed not literally but in potential so essentially there is the smallness of the seed and the largeness of the tree similarly there is the smallness of the eye of a needle and there is the largeness of the elephant so the essential contrast is that the smallness and the largeness are not limitations of the lord’s ability that the lord can make the large go through the small how is that possible? A rough analogy of that is given that now the large being inside the small may have a time lag the time lag may be 10 years for a small seed to go into a giant but still the principle is that the small can become the khandi, the seed, the carrier of the large the large manifests over a period of time so there is a rough analog of this principle that largeness and smallness as they appear to us are not absolute inviolable truths there is a mechanism in nature where itself they change like the large can become a small and we fit into the small so now this is a normal experience for us because it’s familiar to us we may not often think about it on the other hand when we talk about the Brahman and God if we go into the ayat we have no experience of it and that’s why we may feel that it is impossible but in principle even the process by which the seed contains the potentiality for the tree, that process has been created by God and because God has created that process he may have standardized the process over here but he is not limited by the standardization of the processes that he has made he can make things happen in a non-standard ways, just like there may be a there may be a company which may be producing cars by standard processes and when you produce by standard processes say the car goes along a particular conveyor belt and then it may be the car is produced and that may take maybe 7 days for a car to be produced or whatever, now that is a program and maybe all the workers in the factory have seen car produced only by that program and if they are told that actually the car can be produced in 7 hours itself, it’s impossible it’s impossible but because they have never seen it but the main engineer or the main owner if he wants, in principle it is possible that he can create the alternative pathway and make the necessary infrastructure and produce a car in 7 hours so the essential difference in the two is actually just a matter of extrapolating from the family to the unfamily so in the case of the Brahmin he was absolutely absolutizing the familiar as normal and the unfamiliar as impossible just because the threading of eye to elements is unfamiliar, he made it impossible but actually what is possible and impossible is basically created by the program of the Lord so the Lord has made something the Lord can change it so the cobbler had faith that the Lord had the potentiality to change the sizes so that a small could become a passage for the big and he gave example the example is not literally analogous, in one case there is time lag is there, but the broad principle is that by mechanisms governed by God we see the large becoming a conduit of the small, similarly the Lord can make some other mechanisms by which, not over a period of time but immediately, instantaneously the large can become an instrument that passes through the small that is the essential first of the story the inconceivable potentiality of God and to give an example of the inconceivable potentiality of God a familiar example of is given, which because of this familiar and because we think we know the mechanism, may not seem inconceivable to us, but in its overall metaphor, it is still inconceivable if we think about it from the broad perspective that is the highlight of the story