In English
God has to be enshrined in the heart
Embodiments of Love! You learn this as well as many other and recite them over and over. You recite the sacred "Thousand Names." of and of , You study many other holy books. Of course, the time spent in these activities is thereby rendered holy. But, these are not helping you to transform the work you are engaged in and making it more valid and acceptable to God. Are you putting into practice at least one percent of what you read or recite? Milk, it is true, contains butter; sesame seeds contain oil; cane yields sugar. To benefit from this knowledge it is not enough to read about it or recite it. Holding milk in the hand, you cannot get butter; filling the lamp with sesame you cannot light the wick, shaking the cane will not result in a shower of sugar. When you keep heaps of sweets on a plate in front of you and recite 108 times. "Heaps of sweets", "Heaps of sweets," "Heaps of sweets," can your tongue relish or stomach receive the stuff you describe? The poet asks: Can the hungry man be satisfied When one praises the menu for him to hear? Can the agony of the poor be allayed When one glorifies wealth for him to hear? Can the suffering of the sick end When one sings aloud of medicines in his ear? Speech and song are not enough to cure the dire disease of recurrent birth and death. God has to be planted firmly in the mind, the omnipresent God has to be enshrined in the heart; God has to flow with the blood in the veins. God has to be visualised through the inner eye.