Passage 4

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In plain words

‘Manasyekaṃ, vacasyekaṃ, karmaṇyekaṃ, mahātmanaṃ.’ Only when we experience this principle can we develop a principle of feeling that is divine, grand and new. The one who recognised such an eternal principle was Yesu. All religions have proclaimed the truth that the essence of all religions, the root of all scriptures and the goal of all paths is one. The people of Bhārata began with the sacred act called namaskāra. As for namaskāra, this namaskāra is what joins the two hands and makes everything one. Namaskāra is what shows the unity within multiplicity. It has also shown that such oneness is man's chief duty in life. Muslims say ‘Salām, salām’. ‘Sa’ means God. ‘La’ means union, merging. They have shown that becoming one with God is the meaning of salām. Christians have called out ‘Yesu, Yesu’. ‘Ye’ means one. ‘Su’ means God. The Christian religion has shown the truth that ‘God is one’. In short, all religions have taught oneness. ‘Ekam eva advitīyaṃ brahma.’ It has shown the truth that there is no second, that what is, is one alone. But many have divided the Yesu-principle, which shows that ‘God is one’, into different meanings, and have come to take it in the wrong sense, ‘Yesu alone is God’. The meaning ‘Jesus alone’ is not in it. Yesu means: the one and only God. Had this principle been spread with a broad vision, how sacred a path there would be the chance to follow!

Every man needs a broad heart

There is only one GOD. Wherever you look, it is the one God. The forms may be different, the names may be different. Today, however much people study, however much Vijñāna, Prajñāna and Sujñāna they achieve, broadness of feeling keeps on declining.