Passage 1

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In plain words

Never by mere words / does one attain Saccidānanda; in land that holds no seed / no crop at all will grow.

Students, embodiments of the divine Ātma!

Following the Vedic saying ‘Raso vai saḥ’, we cannot but say that this whole universe arose from Brahman itself, which is full of rasa. That Prakṛti, that Brahman, this universe: the oneness of these three is a bond that cannot be broken. The one rasa itself appears to us at many levels. In this world beyond Prakṛti, three kinds of regions have been marked out. You may call them regions, or you may call them worlds. Of these three kinds of regions, the first is called Muktadhāma, the second Vaikuṇṭhadhāma and the third Golokadhāma: these are their fitting names. These three have been set up as the right places for the principles of Bhakti, Jñāna and Mokṣa. Muktidhāma is the name of the path by which you simply inquire into what is eternal and what is transient, and so decide for yourself that these forms and names are impermanent, fleeting and Asatya; live your life, in some measure, in the Satya that is the principle of the Ātma, Satya, eternal and pure, the formless principle; so follow the principle of yoga that is eternal Ānanda, supreme Ānanda; and so reach the state called Mukti. And on the path of Bhakti, you become lost and enraptured in the experience of the rasa of Prema, dedicate your whole life to the effort to experience the principle of God's Prema, and so strive to become worthy of the grace of the Paramātma: all the efforts made for this reach Vaikuṇṭhadhāma. In human life, the divine glories that take on the form of feeling and drink the rasa beyond the gross, subtle and causal bodies are called Golokadhāma.