Passage 6

dēhamu pāñcabhautikamu dēhamu kūlaka tappadeppuḍun

His poems 82

Also in his talks (47)

vyakti mōkṣamunu kōruṭa svārthamagunu

His poems 176

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In plain words

He goes on abiding in this threefold state. This is Satya. This is you. This is the Ātma. This is Tat tvam asi.

So the right sādhana is to try to recognise the power and capacity that pervade everywhere, and to live by it. We see beauty and rejoice. We see food and are delighted. We breathe in a fragrance and are enraptured. Is it the body that does all this, or the Ātma? All this belongs to the Ātma, not to the body.

The body is made of the five elements; the body must fall one day; the indweller is free of all ill; consider: for the indweller birth and death and the marks of the fetters of delusion do not exist; see the truth: that indweller is the God of gods; consider it in your mind: He is the very form of the Ātma.

We must search out this principle of the Ātma. We must experience it, rejoice in it, make it grow and share it with others. That is the chief duty to be done today. It is for experiencing this principle of the Ātma, rejoicing in it and giving it to others that these āśramas were founded.

To save oneself is no great thing; one must strive to save others too

We must never forget the truth of why this society of sādhus was formed. Taking this as one's ground, dedicating one's life to it, giving up self-interest, choosing the good of others, and so bringing one's life to fulfilment: that is the reality within being a sādhu.

For one man to seek his own Mokṣa is self-interest; is it Dharma to reach the goal oneself? to seek the goal for others is what is fitting; such a man alone is truly human.

To save oneself is no greatness. One must strive as one should to save others too.