Passage 10

In English

Truth is totality, the One which integrates and includes the many. The sages of yore were not satisfied with one facet of the Truth or one view, not of one God but of That where all streams merge. As told you now that it is , to whom adoration addressed to all Gods reaches: "". One house cannot become a village, nor one individual, a society, nor one tree, a forest! To be conscious of the totality, one has to fill oneself with the sublime grandeur of the forest, not squat under a single tree. This is the inner purpose which led aspirants and seekers after Truth to the core the Himalyan forests. Keeping away from the din of the populace was only an excuse. In the sylvan hermitage, the prayer resonant with , "Let all be of one mind, of one heart, towards one goal, sustained by one strength" rose more meaningful and more effectively. The present socialist ideal of the unity of mankind is a Vedhic concept; in fact, the Vedhic ideal was even wider and more comprehensive. "Let all the worlds be happy and prosperous," "The world is one family," the proclaimed.