In English
This Universe is enveloped in God
Shutting yourself in a room and offering incense and flowers to a picture or image of God, singing or reciting His glory are very poor substitutes for the discipline that will liberate you from ignorance. All beings are images of God; all men are His pictures; then, why shut yourselves in? All creation is marching on a pilgrimage to Him; why then behave as if you are trekking it alone? You believe that the time spent in church or temple or the domestic shrine in adoration and in ritual worship is devoted to God and the rest is spent for other purposes. But, you cannot demarcate and delimit the realms of God and man like that. God is ever with you everywhere. - “All this is God.” Society is the school where this lesson is taught to those who earnestly seek. The sages of this land resorted to the hermitages in the forests, and mixed with the steadfast seekers there is scholastic discussion and disciplinary practices. They drew inspiration and instruction from each other, and learnt the Truth, - “This Universe is enveloped in God” - that God is the string on which the worlds are strung. When man gives up his conceit and becomes nature’s pupil, rather than its tyrannical master, he can hear her voice advising, admonishing, and illuminating. Man has-all the resources he needs in himself. He can tap them by identifying them and manifesting them, and by sharing them with others. He is , and (Being, Awareness, Bliss Absolute); He is (Form of divine-energy). When man extols himself, he is extolling God. Do not cultivate the conviction that you are mere men; be assured that you are destined for Divinity. When Divinity takes on the human form as described in the , the , and the , one has to interpret the actions as providing examples and lessons, and not as human stories enacted for entertainment.