Passage 1

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In plain words

Doing a bad deed, you cannot come by good; doing a good deed, you cannot meet with harm. Plant a lime tree: will it yield you a mango? Will a lime come to you from the mango you plant?

All forms, all religions point to You alone; all images are none other than Your forms; You alone dwell in all.

Students, embodiments of the sacred Ātma!

In the endless universe, among all the countless millions of living beings, and in every way, man stands foremost: this is the word of those who know the Ātma. “Dharmo hi teṣāṃ adhikaṃ viśeṣaḥ; jñānaṃ hi teṣā adhiko viśeṣaḥ.” Food, sleep, fear, mating and the like are functions common to man and to the other beasts, birds and animals; yet when man is set beside the other living beings, Dharma and Jñāna have been placed within him as his own special distinction. But if this Dharma and Jñāna are not in man, then men too can be recognised only as belonging to the rest of the host of living beings. First of all we must recognise what this Dharma is. “Dāraṇāt dharma…” One explanation of Dharma says that it is also what lays down rules of a certain kind for all the beings it upholds, and through them protects them. Then again, that which teaches man certain rules and disciplines and gives him the individuality that makes him recognise his duty is called Dharma. “Dharmo dhārayate pracāra,” they said. That is, another explanation too says that Dharma is the very thing that came into being to grant people certain kinds of methods and rules for the way they should follow Dharma, and through them to awaken in them also the principle of the Ātma, which is their divinity.