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One final analogy is in order, to put in perspective what I share here of the teachings of Baha'u'llah. Imagine that someone holds out a small spoon for you to see, and in that spoon is a drop of water. The person offering it to you, for your study, informs you, "This drop is from the Pacific Ocean." Consider, in studying that drop, what could you learn of the ocean from which it came? Could you perceive from it anything of the depths of that great ocean? Could you understand from it its vast extent, or the influence it has on the life of this planet? Could you tell anything of that ocean's beauty or power? (114:6) No, certainly not. And neither, unfortunately, will you be able from my brief presentation here, to receive more than a drop of the ocean of Baha'u'llah's words. What I present here, you can read in but a few minutes, yet Baha'u'llah's teachings were revealed over a period of forty years. Merely reading them alone, would take years; understanding them, lifetimes. No Baha'i in the world claims to have fully grasped the immensity of the knowledge of Baha'u'llah. In fact, it is one of the foremost truths of the Baha'i Faith, that the Word of God is and will always remain far beyond the ken of the human mind
(114:7)
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