In plain words
However far you can go, that far that light can come, all that way.’ In the same way, when we keep noble feelings, sacred good qualities and divine calm right with us as we travel the journey of our life, then wherever we go, that serenity, that sacredness, that purity and the power of those good qualities too keep coming right along with us. The Paramātma is all-pervading. For the principle of the Paramātma, who is everywhere like this, we keep a pūjā room, a dhyāna room as we call it, only that; we let these sacred qualities in only for as long as we are in it; and afterwards, with nothing but the doubt that the Paramātma is not there, we go about elsewhere too with bad qualities. So when you doubt the all-pervading nature of the Paramātma, how far can your Bhakti and śraddhā grow at all? Very well: if you doubt that all-pervasiveness, then, with ‘Deho devālaya prokto jīvodeva ssanātanaḥ’, think of this very body as the temple, believe the heart to be the altar and think of the jīva itself as God; this jīva goes everywhere along with the body, does he not! Where the body is, there the jīva is. Where the jīva is, there God is. Where God is, that very place is our meditation room. So everywhere is the meditation room itself. Everywhere is our pūjā room itself. To set about cultivating good feelings everywhere is the highest sādhana. So, in every karma too, in every place too, and towards every person, to hold sacred feelings and sacred thoughts is the right path. But when we want such sacred faith to arise in us, we must follow the teachings of those who have experience and the path of the elders, read at least to some extent the good books, the sacred Bhārata, the Bhāgavata, the Rāmāyaṇa, the Itihāsas and Purāṇas, the Bible, the Bhagavad Gītā and the like, and so strive to recognise our own Satya. We must give enough time to satsaṅga of this kind. Of the time we have, three quarters we spend in waste.