Passage 13

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In plain words

The Eternal One, who has neither death nor birth, without beginning, middle or end, the One who has no beginning, himself not dying, not born, not slain, shines in all as the Ātma, the witness of all.

So divinity does not die and get born again, as your faith dies and is born. You may call this GOD by any name. So these are names given to God, not names He was born with. The ṛṣis too said Śivaḥ. They said Śaṅkaraḥ. They said Ādityaḥ. They said Sambhavaḥ. They said Svayambhuḥ. Many names are ones they gave; He did not come having named Himself.

So, what appears to us through the visible: Nature is God. Energy is God. Nothing is God. It is not nothing, there is everything. In what we call nothing, everything is contained. In what we call everything, it is there as nothing. Everything is nothing. Nothing is everything. So in this whole world too, everything: all things are there. We hope that all things are there. A great mistake. This is nothing. “There is no God. There is no God. There is nothing there, nothing,” they say. But everything is right there. The atheist says that what is, is not. There is.... no God. ‘There is’ came first. ‘No God’ came next. So he himself is saying that what is, is not. He himself is blind. He acts against the word he spoke and its meaning. Heart, word and deed must come together as one. That itself is humanness. The proper study of mankind is man.

So though there is truth in what we say, we forget the truth, believe Asatya and waste our lives. Divinity is everywhere. This world itself is the form of God. After careful research the ṛṣis said that this very divinity is the seed. They came to regard this divinity as the seed of all creation too. Here we must recognise this clearly. Every seed has a husk on it. Only when the seed and the husk are together does it come up as a plant. Suppose there is some paddy. When do we call it paddy? With husk-paddy. Without husk Rice. At times the outer husk falls off. Some grains stay clinging to the outer husk. So the seed within is God, the One who is the Ātma, and the outer husk is Prakṛti.