Passage 4

In English

The Universe is a pleasant garden

You may pride yourselves on being God-minded and Godward-bound; but your pride proclaims that God is only on the circumference of your activity. You must be humble; you must not limit God to any particular Name and Form. How can you fix a label on God and compel Him to conform to your specifications.:' Study the emblem of the Organisation; it declares that all faiths feed the heart with , all faiths cleanse the mind of littleness, all faiths confer courage on the weak and the vacillating. The Universe around you is a pleasant garden full of charming patches of many-hued flowers filled with fragrance and nectarine elixir - each flower-bed being a Religion, which attracts the loyalty of millions of seekers. The garden too is God; God dances in that garden at His own handiwork, gladdening the flowers with the magic melody of the flute. Be full of joy and love; share that joy and love with all. If you utter "God, God," and inflict pain on man, you will be spumed as a cheat. You need not cry out God, God! But, if you confer joy on brother man, God will respond with His presence, though uninvited. There are, however, many in positions of authority-and influence who adore God and, at the same time, abhor mani They behave as if their God is a person of very limited intelligence who-can be easily deceived, who will. take their words at their face value and never look behind them for the motive and the. intention. Believe that God resides in all beings; speak such words, as would spread goodness, truth and beauty; do such acts as would promote the happiness and prosperity of all; pray that. all worlds have peace. Expand yourselves; do not contract into your own tiny individuality. Expand into Universal love, unshaken equanimity, and ever-active virtue. That is the Path which will bring out the Divinity in you to the fullest.