Electricity & the underlying power

What is this bizarre thing? It can heat stoves & cool refrigerators. It can generate light or sound. It can move things around. It can attract or repel some metals. It takes on multiple forms. Does it have a name or form of its own?

It is nameless & formless. We can give it a name, Electricity. Tamil has an interesting name for it: மின்சாரம். This means, the essence of that which can't be seen.

Say there are isolated tribes, who have never experienced electricity may say that it doesn't exist. They may say, let me see it, hear it or touch it. What, I can't do that? Maybe it doesn't exist.

Maybe we touch a small battery, don't feel anything. We can touch & perceive a high voltage line, once.

If someone takes a bulb & complains that it doesn't amplify sound, or takes a speaker & complains that it doesn't make light, how would that appear?

This underlying unseen power flows through everything, but it is dependent on the device that uses this power. They can emit different types or forms of light. Some are like a 0W night lamp, some are 50W, 100W, 500W or 1000W. A fused bulb may emit no light. Is that a problem with the bulb or the electricity?

Now, imagine that there is a power, that is the source of electricity & everything there is, that flows through everything in the universe. Imagine applying the same analogies on this power.

Reference:
Haridas Giri Upanyasam