In plain words
‘Yad bhāvaṃ tad bhavati.’ The father asked, ‘Where is God, boy?’ ‘Have no doubt that He is here and not there,’ he said. ‘Then is He in this pillar? Prove it,’ he said. ‘Father! Not this pillar alone; wherever you look, there is no place at all where He is not,’ he said. Hiraṇyakaśipu smashed that pillar. At once God appeared in it. What is the inner meaning of this? The body itself is like a pillar. Divinity dwells in it in the form of consciousness, and everywhere He is carrying out all actions. The one who sees with the eyes is He Himself, the one who hears with the ears is He Himself, the one who tastes with the tongue is He Himself, the one who speaks is He Himself: all is He Himself! So, the moment that infatuation with the body was smashed, the form of God appeared.
As long as infatuation with the body remains, infatuation with God does not grow
So, as long as infatuation with the body remains, infatuation with God does not grow in us. This too is infatuation, that too is infatuation! As long as infatuation remains, we do not attain Brahman. So we must go on reducing infatuation with the body to some extent. We must go on increasing the longing for God. We must dedicate all our Prema to God. That is why:
You alone are mother, and father You alone; You alone are kinsman, and friend You alone; You alone are learning, and wealth You alone; You alone are my all, O God of gods.
The day we develop this principle, the day we resolve on it firmly, then alone will Ānanda come within our reach. Filling the Manas with doubts of one kind or another and wasting life through these doubts, in the end we cannot enjoy even what we could have enjoyed. We cannot keep hold even of what has come into our hands. So we must make the effort it takes to enjoy what has come into our hands. We must go on loving even enemies. Surely it becomes possible to mould them to a fitting path.