Passage 23

In English

By this meditation, not only bad traits that are in you will have been removed, but in their place noble and sacred ideas and sacred actions would have entered; not only that, you would be able to get the glorious of or you would experience , the experience of oneness, because the light that is in you is present in all human beings, because the light that is present in you is present in all the birds and animals - the light is everywhere. By realising this, you will also have established the truth of the saying, “.” Some of you may get a doubt and say to yourselves, “Well, we like , He is our God; we like , He is our God; we like , He is our God. Why should we not take and meditate on one of these Forms? Why should we have a light in front of us for meditation?” But a shape or a particular form is not a permanent thing. That is a changing thing; that is also a fleeting thing. It is not right that you should put your concentration on something that will change, which is not permanent. You must have something that does not change. That is why you have to take the . Having the which does not change, in your meditation you can certainly put into it, the or form which you want and which you want to pray to. There is nothing wrong in doing that. In this form or , there is always a growth and decline. On the contrary, if we have a , or a light in one place, it does not matter how many people may come and light up their lamps from this one , this is not going to diminish or lose anything. This first , the source, is called the . Those who come and light up their lamps are called . So many , all of them have started from one single only. By putting this in our hearts, in each individual ’ s heart, the result of the meditation will be that this single jivan will go and merge itself in the and will teach you the nature of , or the oneness of this world and the entire creation.