In English
Man is indeed the highest among living beings. The proclaim four great truths about man: "Thou art That" ( ); "The Highest Wisdom is You" (); "This You is " (); "I am " (). How are we to prove the correctness of the assertion, "Thou art That"? Suppose there is a boulder on a hill. A sculptor spots it there and carves out of it a beautiful idol of which is installed in a temple and adored ceremonially with every prescribed rite. The flaked pieces of the same boulder are 'lying about in heaps on the hill at the site where the sculptor chiselled the idol. These flakes are worthless - no temple is built to install any one of them as an idol, for they have undergone no transformation. Yet the flakes declare, "We are That: We are the same as that Idol there," though they have been discarded by the sculptor. All is stone - we build with stone, we worship stone, we break stone with metal. Square stones are building blocks, fiat ones are used as steps and round ones are carved into figures. Stone is the substance and we use it according to its shape and structure. We can similarly recognise the Divinity that is latent in man. We imagine that the eye sees and the tongue eats but, in truth, the eye does not see, nor does the tongue eat. It is the Divine Will within us that operates every one of the senses. For example, at the moment you are all supposed to be sitting in the of listening to Me, but some of you are thinking about your family back in your village and not listening to Me at all. My words fall on your ears, but your minds are not here.