‘In our human consciousness there is the image of an ideal truth of being, a divine nature, an incipient godhead: in relation to that higher truth our present state of imperfection can be relatively described as an undivine life and the conditions of the world from which we start as undivine conditions; the imperfections are the indication given to us that they are there as first disguises, not as the intended expression of the divine being and the divine nature. It is a Power within us, the concealed Divinity, that has lit the flame of aspiration, pictures the image of the ideal, keeps alive our discontent and pushes us to throw off the disguise and to reveal or, in the Vedic phrase, to form and disclose the Godhead in the manifest spirit, mind, life and body of this terrestrial creature. Our present nature can only be transitional, our imperfect status a starting-point and opportunity for the achievement of another higher, wider and greater that shall be divine and perfect not only by the secret spirit within it but in its manifest and most outward form of existence.’
(Ref. https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-divine-and-the-undivine#p9)
This is the passage and the Vedic image is of the fire covered by the smoke. Instead of trying to fight the smoke, increase the fire that will slowly burn away the wet logs and the impure elements that cast smoke. Once the impurities are removed by the ascending fire that is increasing in intensity, the smoke of the undivine elements fades away and the true divine form emerges in the glowing fire.
There are several passages in the Vedas describing it in different ways, but this is the essence.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
