Passage 2

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In plain words

Godhood must be made manifest in human life. Godhood itself is the foundation of human society; Godhood itself is the chief thing. When it is filled with Ahaṅkāra, it turns into a distortion: it becomes all sorrow.

In the culture of Bhārata too, such distortion and such warped feelings are growing, through the influence of the new civilisation. Among the people of Bhārata themselves there are those who thump the table and declare that there is no God. A great many mock pilgrimages and visits to holy places as foolishness. But however much anyone says it is not there, Divinity does not go away! To call worthless everything you dislike is also nothing but foolishness.

The spiritual is not a private, individual thing; its fruit is your own svarūpa itself, realised as the collective form. Never think of the spiritual life as loneliness, or as a life lived all alone. The state in which you can stay one with the whole of mankind, full and complete, untouched by the mind's attachments and aversions: that is the spiritual state!

To recognise this truth the intellect is the chief support; through the intellect you must search for your svarūpa: recognising it, and knowing your Divinity, you must rejoice.

But now people act against this path, set out on a different one, fall into a life of confusion and suffer; from the first light of dawn till night, scrambling only for the pleasures that come from outside has become their habit.