In English
The answers to the questions, “where can we find the supreme ? How can we get to the supreme ? How can we understand the same?” are contained in the and in all other texts of that kind. Once, while talking in affectionate terms and in a friendly manner to Lord , asked where the Lord was staying those days. He said, “I do wish to find you. I would like to get from you the permanent address where you stay, the address of your headquarters. I do not require the address of your branch offices, as it is possible that you will not stay in the branches all the time.” The answer to this has been: “Yes, my permanent address is: care of all the living things.” There is another example, which has nicely handed to us. , after she had gone through all her troubles and tribulations, was sitting and talking to on one occasion in a pleasant mood. She addressed as her dear brother and asked: “What is the matter? I remember having been in great difficulties and having called you with the fullness of my heart and begged you to come and save me. But you came late. You never came in time. Can you now explain to me what stood in the way of your coming in proper time?” then asked : “You say you addressed me and called me. May I know in what manner you called me and how you addressed me?” Then she replied, “Yes, I said, , .” The Lord replied, “You addressed me as . Where is and where is , to which place I had to come? That was a long distance. If only you had addressed me as or as one who is living in your own heart, I would have appeared immediately. Because of the manner of your addressing I had to travel all the way from to and how could I have come in time from such a long distance?” In this way, all the utterances of God only demonstrate to us His closeness to us. The also demonstrate exactly this closeness of God to us. What does it mean? Close to whom? It implies our going close to God or . What is the consequence of our going close to ? I will give you a small example and thereafter go into the . We have an airconditioner inside the house. When we are close to the airconditioner, naturally it will exhilarate us to some extent. The external heat is at a distance from you, and the airconditioner gives you some happiness and pleasure. In the same manner, in winter, we go and sit near a fire. Then the heat of the fire will remove the cold that is troubling you and will give you some amount of comfort and ease. So what the air conditioner is doing is to remove the heat that is in us and give us comfort. Similarly, what the fire is doing is to remove the troublesome cold that is near you and give you some comfort by giving the heat. In the same manner, when we go closer to God, what He is doing is to remove all the material desires which are in us, make them go farther away from us and give us the comfort of getting rid of those material desires. The , which is surrounded and encompassed by the five elements, is being retrieved from the bondage that is caused by the five elements. This can be referred to as . That which establishes such a , that which gives you the and shows the path by which you can reach , is simply equivalent to getting relief from bondage to the five elements. This is what the do.