Passage 1

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In plain words

In you, in me, truly, there is one Viṣṇu alone; your impatient anger is in vain. If your heart stays even everywhere, only then does the state of Viṣṇu become your experience.

Embodiments of the divine Ātma!

Since this is another of the chief ślokas among the Sanskrit ślokas of the Bhaja Govindam that Śaṅkara Bhagavatpāda handed down, let us take up another śloka today, to place its inner meaning in the seat of your heart and so drive out the contrary feelings that have entered you. We grasp the principle that the God who is in you and in me is one, and settle that this very principle is the form of the Ātma; and when we recognise that, though the Ātma itself, being the form of Brahman, takes on many forms and names, the embodiment of Satya who is oneness is the one Paramātma alone, Ajñāna falls away. There is no use in your getting angry for nothing. The reason is this: he taught here that your anger harms you yourself. It also means that our impatient anger is smoke added to our own burning. But the way to curb this impatient anger comes to us step by step, in the citta itself. To gain that equanimity, we must inquire, and most urgently. “Bhavaśamatvaṃ sarvatra,” he said in the third line. Prahlāda too taught this very thing, “Who is the strength of the weak, of you, of me, of Brahmā and the rest?”: the truth that such a Lord, God Himself, is the same to all. To teach the one principle of the Ātma within individuals who take on many forms, he also proclaimed this Advaita to the world. Recognising oneness of this kind is most urgent for every person.