Passage 6

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In plain words

In the end, when is one well? One's family must be well. When will one's family be well? Only when society is well. So only when the principle whose form is the whole is well are all of us well.

That is why they said that God is of the nature of the Trimūrti. The form of the individual is one. The form of the family is the second. The form of the universe is the third. This is the form of the Trimūrti. In these three there is one form of the Ātma. That is divinity. The word “Daiva” means the form of the whole. My hands are separate. My legs are separate. My ears are separate. My eyes are separate. All my limbs are separate. But the principle common to all the limbs is my one heart. There is not a heart for each limb. In the same way each country, each village, each town may be separate limbs. In all the limbs God, whose form is the whole, is one. He alone is the heart. He is the very heart. This country called the body is a temple of God. This world is God's vast personal form; so when we want to see God, only when we see this form of the universe as God is it the true darśana of God.

All the śāstras, all the dharmas, all the Vedas, all the itihāsas and purāṇas: all these are dualist outlooks. Every man who is in this dualist outlook must follow dvaita for some time. As long as his sight is on creation, only this feeling of creation rises in him. He stays identified with the feeling of the world alone. So as long as this feeling of the world remains, these śāstras, these new years, this jyotiśśāstra, all the śāstras are most necessary. This world is bound up with time. This world is the very form of time. That is why the Veda, “Kālāya namaḥ, kālakālāya namaḥ, kālātītāya namaḥ, kāladarpadamanāya namaḥ, kālasvarūpāya namaḥ”, has kept time foremost everywhere. This time is bound up with the five senses. The very working of these five senses is called the pañcāṅga. This pañcāṅga changes according to jyotiśśāstra, according to the sun, the moon and the rest, according to time, karma and duty. The pañcāṅga only shows what is going to happen; it does not bring the remedy for it. In this pañcāṅga they write that tomorrow rain will pour in all ten directions, but if you wring the pañcāṅga not even ten drops of water come. This pañcāṅga principle pictures, up to a point, the natural form of things. Their view is that this whole world is bound up with the nine planets. Among these nine lords, this year seven lords are in a very good position. The king and the minister, the Moon and Mars, are very strong this year. Śani has no place at all this year. So this year there will be no lack at all of food and drink in this world.