In it, not, of it

15 May 1969, Ahmedabad

Professor Kasturi's English.

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God is visible when concretised by There are people who go about declaring that there is no God, because they are not able to see Him. They say that they have searched in space, on the way to the moon, and even on the moon but there was no sign of the Almighty. But they themselves are, all the time, the mansions in which He resides! Like the blind bamboozling the blind into a fall, others too repeat like parrots this "fashionable slogan." No one sees the roots, but, they are there, deep in the soil, away from all eyes. Can you, do you assert, that there are no roots for trees, that nothing feeds them or upholds them, from below? God feeds, sustains, holds firm - unseen He can be seen by those who make the effort, along the lines laid down for the purpose, by those who have succeeded in experiencing Him. God is, as butter in milk, visible when concretised by (spiritual striving).

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The chief means by which you detach your mind from distractions and attach yourselves to the search of God are (communion with God) and (sacrifice). (desire) has to be got rid of by and (God) has to be secured by . Desire discolours the intelligence; it perverts judgement; it sharpens the appetites of the senses. It lends a false lure to the objective world. When desire disappears or is concentrated on God, Intelligence is selfluminous, it shines in its pristine splendour, and that splendour reveals the God within and without. That is the real (Realisation of the Self). I bless you that you succeed in the in which you are engaged; if you are not practising any now, I advise you to take up the simple one of (remembrance of the Divine), along with reverence towards parents and elders and teachers, service rendered to the poor and the sick. See every one of them as your (the Lord in the Form you like most). That will fill your heart with Love and give you stability of mind and peace.