Passage 9

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In plain words

Now, the one who, seeking to protect us, gives us the right road is God: inside the circle a policeman stands and keeps saying ‘stop, go’; in the same way God, standing Himself in the middle of the four, keeps driving the chariot of life on, saying, ‘You stop; you turn this way.’ But today's policemen, telling one to come and another to go: accidents happen to both. They say both at the same time. But God, our protector, does not guide us in that way, so that harm comes. So, if we take refuge in God, our whole life, all of it, a truly happy life, there will be no doubt at all of our experiencing divine Ānanda, here and hereafter as well.

Students! Today you may not have understood some of this about Dharma. From now on, I have resolved to show the form of this Dharma with small, small analogies and small, small words that you can understand. Tomorrow too, the principle of Dharma, because the word Dharma is plunging many people into a state of confusion. It is not something fearsome, nor something that brings any kind of harm to another. There is no reason at all for Dharma, which gives happiness, Ānanda and security to all, to be thrown into such turmoil.