Passage 1

In English

THE wise are those who know the (Divine Self). They distinguish between That and This, and , the Absolute and the Relative, the Universal and Particular, that is falsely conceived as separate from the Universal. When he experiences the Truth that he is the Absolute , man is endowed with Supreme Bliss. It is sheer waste if one has no such experience but has pored over mountains of spiritual texts or earned fame as a deep scholar. Man alone has the ability to understand the phenomenal world around him. He can grasp the ways and waywardness of the world; he can delve into its evolution and involution, its contraction and expansion. Therefore, he has to give it only a relative value, and follow as his only goal, the search for the and the attainment of the . And, the search has to be through continuous, consistent . Boundless spiritual potential is encased in every being. ]n man, it expresses itself as (Supreme Wisdom). Man is neither a bit of clod, nor a bundle of flesh. He has in him the inexhaustible spring of (Divine Bliss). A person is not just the body, with its limbs and other mechanisms. The is the Divine Person. The soul is the Personality. And the person realises only when the is cognised. This achievement cannot be won through riches or authority of office, scholarship or status, fame or force. Discarding this perennial , man imagines the sensual pleasures to be and he spends his life in fruitless pursuits. He wanders about in the thorny jungles and desert sands. He humiliates himself and crawls and cringes for favours from all and sundry. This is the consequence of the ignorance that blinds.