Passage 4

In English

The only one God can be reached by a thousand Names

Remember, you cannot have the (experience) and the (Bliss) first. And, you cannot postpone fail:h, until you get them. You cannot bargain: "Give me the and then, I shall have faith." See the in all . means, he who lives in the (port, city, or town). Each one of us is the resident and the sole resident of a distinct house of God. But, the - the 'Supreme Resident in all the cities - is God. You can recognise this , if you educate yourselves properly. Take this performed here. In this One Fire, offerings are made concurrently with the recitation of the names of God, enclosed in elaborate hymns. More than 3560 offerings are made each day, for seven days. Each name describes God as having a special form. But this One Fire consumes all the offerings, and through its intermission every one of the offerings reaches the One God, the One that really IS. Or, consider this: you perform worship with 1008 Names, a rite called . You keep an idol or picture before you and offer one flower at a time at the feet of that symbol of God, repeating the names, one at a time. The one symbol of the One God is only One, though He can be reached by a thousand names. Though you are ackowledging only One in all these rites, proclaiming the One (nondualistic) Divine, your sense and your intellect and your mind, its pack of desires, insist on running after the Many. This is the (delusion) that casts its enchantment on weak and ignorant men. It urges man towards wild prolific greeds of the manyfaced senses.