Passage 15

In English

In order to acquire the good fortune of discovering the nature of one’s own self ( or “I am I”), one has to do . , or the devotional path, is that . No separate path is necessary to search for God. The Omnipresent God can be found anywhere and everywhere. However, to recognise the formless and attributeless Divinity, it is necessary to start with the name and form to some extent. In the beginning, it is absolutely necessary to worship the Divine form. Gradually, we may develop an inward vision and try to contemplate on the formless, attributeless Divinity. It is said (God is everywhere firmly installed inside, outside and in the whole of the universe). When God is thus omnipresent, there is no necessity for ourselves to confine our contemplation to one place. But, until we develop such a firm belief and faith and the capacity to recognise the omnipresent, formless, attributeless, we have to depend upon a name and form for our worship. By entering thus into (devotional path), we can later on develop a feeling of unity with Divinity and finally install ourselves in -. Without a flower, there cannot be a raw fruit; without a raw fruit, there cannot be a ripe fruit. Therefore, the unity of all these - the flower, the raw fruit and the ripe fruit - is the true nature of , i.e., Divinity. The flower is the path of action (). This gradually transforms itself into the raw fruit of the path of devotion (). When this raw fruit is nourished and nurtured, it ripens itself into a fruit of . Once the fruit is ready, there enters the sweetness, finally leading to (detachment). The (action), (worship/ devotion) and (wisdom) fructify ultimately into (detachment). Therefore, we should first enter into the (the path of action). Whatever actions we perform, they must be done with a spirit of offering to God.