Passage 7

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In plain words

Advaita darśanaṃ jñānamu. What does it mean? We must develop the vision of oneness in the many. All are embodiments of God. Viśvaṃ viṣṇusvarūpaṃ. Sarvaṃ khalvidaṃ brahma. We must keep fostering that great principle, little by little. But many people say, 'We shall try, we shall try.' Say Try Try Try, and it goes dry. Must do: we must do it, without fail. So we must never say of any single thing, 'We shall try.' That is a weakness.

Whether many of you have noticed it or not, whatever Swami says, I say flatly, 'I will do this' or 'I will not', but 'I shall see' never, ever comes from Me. So, My Life is My message: follow Me. We must make the firm promise, 'We shall do it.' For whom? For your own sake. That is precisely why we bring our work to fruit only when we hold to such a vow in every matter. If one goes on for ages saying 'We shall see, we shall see', when is the seeing to be done? So let us have no more of the word 'we shall see'. We must set about it with the firm faith that says, 'We shall do it.' That itself is faith. That faith itself is our breath; without that faith we are a corpse without breath. We must have faith in what is good. We must throw out what is bad. We must carry out such an examination of the eternal and the transient. What awakens this power of examination, and spreads it, is this Ṛgveda. To strengthen what is liked and put far away what is disliked: that is the work of this Veda. Every single person must try to recognise the truth that in such sacred Vedas there is so sacred an essence.

From air, from water, from sound, every single thing, this Veda has granted in every way. That very thing man goes on asking for, saying camē camē camē. In this Veda there are two kinds. The namaka and the camaka; the whole camaka is: I want, I want, I want; I want everything. I am thirsty. I want a little water. Give him that water and he is not content with that. He wants a cool drink. Give him that cool drink and he is not content: he wants an Ice cream. In this way desires go on growing and growing. That is precisely why in this Veda, in the camaka: O Lord, give me cool air. And that air too, give me only as much as I need. You must not give it to me so that I choke. You must give me good, tasty food. This food must not cause indigestion. I must be at ease. It must not cause me fatigue. Ask the telinavārini of the Veda in this way: in the camaka everything is of this kind. Desires. Desires. Desires. The namaka is simply prayer to God. Nama: I do not want it. I want You alone. So Your will, Your Prema, Your Jñāna, Your darśan, Your touch: these alone are what I want. The very mantras performed for Your sake are the namakas. They are unable to teach the people the difference there is in such a namaka and camaka.