Passage 21

In English

, who have had considerable experience of Divinity, had at one time been singing the praise of the Lord describing His qualities and His greatness in the following terms, “How can we find You, You are present in all the 84 of different kinds of living things and You are like an infinitesimally small one when we think of infinitesimally small things. You are like an infinitely large one when we think of infinitely large things. You are Infinite and You have endowed us with minds which cannot know and even get an estimate of Yourself who is present everywhere, in small things as well as in big things. Thus You have given us this ignorance and we would like to call You a thief, a person who has done something which has put us in difficulty.” He has also been described as one who has stolen their own or their heart. This is a matter that is of extraordinary interest in that the , who had not any spiritual practice, who had not read any , who had not undergone any sacrifice or experience of a Divine nature had been able to bind down the Divine one to themselves. The one single effort involved related to or love and that is all. To know the Lord of the Universe, to understand Him and to be able to get closer to Him, there is no need to read all the text books. The one thing that you should practice and that you should have in your heart is . But because the ancient who lived in this country had handed over to us the sacred texts which are full of meaning, it is our responsibility, it is the responsibility of all Indians, to read them, to try and understand them. We should also put into practice what is contained in them and hand over all the essence and the good things to the rest of the world.