Passage 8

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In plain words

When we fight the great Māyā, we must get the help of one stronger than it. The one whose power is greater than Māyā is Mādhava. If you take refuge in the Divine, you can conquer Māyā easily.

Together there is Mokṣa

Some people go off to the forests for sādhana. We must foster the broad feeling: 'All are God's children; everyone must have the chance of sādhana; for that, everyone must attain divinity.' If all the people of Bhārata had stood as one, foreigners would never have won victory over Bhārata. Four bulls used to graze together in one place. Every day a tiger came to eat them. When the four bulls fell on it from four sides, the tiger would run away. One day the four bulls quarrelled and went off in four directions, and they became food for the tiger for four days. So only together is there Mokṣa! When one walks all alone, even a short distance is a burden. If ten go together, they can go any distance cheerfully. If ten fight together, each has the courage of knowing that nine stand behind him. One day Kṛṣṇa asked Dharmarāja, 'How many brothers are you?' Dharmarāja thought it over well and said, 'When we are all together, we are a hundred and five.' 'The Kauravas are a hundred, and we are five. But when differences come between us, we are only five,' he said.

God appears according to the feeling

Some sit for meditation. But meditation never settles. As soon as they sit for meditation, some bank balance, all sorts of things, keep coming to mind. They do not come at other times, but the moment they sit for meditation everything comes to mind. There is no benefit in sādhanas like this. There is no greater sādhana than to fix your attention on any one of the nine paths of Bhakti and develop a broad feeling. Sādhana must bring a stirring of the heart that belongs to divine experience. 'Saṅkīrtana is kīrtana done fully and rightly.'