Passage 3

In English

To attain God, Love is enough

God is the embodiment of compassion. He watches for a grain of goodness or humility so that He can reward it with tons of Grace. In a certain temple for , the priest had silver basin with a hole in its base for water to drip continuously. He filled it with water and hung it over the (the idol of ) so that the God who swallowed the poison which would have destroyed the Universe could be cooled and comforted! Even at night when the doors of the shrine were locked by the priest as he went home, the silver basin of water, was in its position. So, a thief broke into the sacred apartment; his eyes were on the silver: he could not reach the rope that kept the basin in position; so, he climbed on the itself in order to take the costly booty down. Even as he was standing on the holy idol manifested Himself in all His glory before him, saying, "Son! I appreciate your surrender; you have cast on me your entire burdan!" The thief prayed that may help him to secure the silver;-there was no ladder or bench or any other article on which he could climb. So, the was his only refuge.. Once a sent a pupil for further guidance to a mendicant in a temple. When he reached the temple, he found the fellow reclining in the central shrine with both his legs resting on the sacred . The pupil was naturally enraged at the man's insolence; when he spoke angrily against the behaviour, the man said, "Please lift my legs and place them where the is not." When he did so, there was a under the feet in the new position. Wherever he deposited the man's legs, a rose to give them rest! That was the lesson the beggar taught him - God is everywhere; only win the vision to see Him so. To attain God, feats of hard are superfluous. Love is enough; avoid hating, envying or even disliking anyone. Put love into practice, through (selfless service). When the loveliness of the seed blooms, you have the flower. And God is the loveliness which blooms as mani In the the Lord has announced, "I am the Seed of all Beings" - "." When the seed is immortality, the tree too is immortal, the flower and the fruit are immortal. When He is (juice), sweetness and love, all His manifestations are sweet and loving. When He is light, nothing can be dark. When He is , (Supreme, Awareness), nothing can be (insentient), without awareness or intelligence or consciousness.