Passage 1

In English

Eyes made of earthly material, intelligence shaped out of incompetent senses - with these you cannot comprehend Me. The (the eye of pure wisdom), alone can see the Lord in all His Glory. That eye is won by , and (listening, reflecting and meditating). Listen with faith; reflect with discrimination; meditate with one-pointed devotion. Then the truth will be revealed and doubts will disappear. , and all had the fortunate chance of ; they followed it up with reflection and meditation and so were blessed by realisation. The process is an inner transformation, an inner discovery. The fog is inner, the veil is across the heart's door: the veil which prayed to Lord to move out of the way. Do not select tonics and drugs for the illness you have diagnosed as yours and believing in the labels and advertisements, do not start using them. Take the advice of a doctor who has known the peculiar problems of your body and its upkeep; accept his diagnosis and his prescription with full faith. Such a one is called the ; he will help the process of removing the veil. When the veil is removed, God can be experienced everywhere in full. When some one told Socrates that he could not see God in the sky or the upper regions of space, which were pointed out by men as the dwelling place of the Deity, he said that He can be seen only by wearing a three-fold lens over the eye: or or adoration; or discrimination; and or renunciation. wore these lenses and he saw Him everywhere, in pillar and plant. His father had bandaged his own eye with cynical doubt and so he could not see Him.