Passage 9

In English

All our acts must be offerings to God

You should not construct a picture of God according to your needs and norms and then complain that God does not conform. God is all-powerful, all-knowing and all-pervading. How then can limits be prescribed for Him? It would be foolish to judge Him, it would be sinful to impute blemishes. The evil tendencies, attitudes and habits that have persisted through many lives and continue in this life also prompt people to hold such conclusions. No one has the authority to lay down rules regulating God's deeds. God is inherent in every living being, in every non-living thing. No distinction can be posited, for all are God. In order to grant joy or enable man to derive joy, God plays pranks, designs and directs dramas. He causes tears and quenches tears; he cures madness and inflicts madness. He exorcises the mania for fame and fortune; He inflames the mania for God and Grace. This day is Day when the valedictory offering in the sacred Fire concludes the seven-day-long , or what may be called also or . is the word used for 'conclusion.' But that word has a more significant meaning: or attainment of or equanimity or balance, as when the river merges in the sea or the self merges in the Self, the merges in . The river loses its name and form, the water loses its taste and flow, when the sea is reached. All acts of ours must be elevated to the level of , offering to the Lord, That is to be the goal, the consummation. Nothing else is to be desired or expected. When the offering reaches God, the person is most happy because the God is in Him.