Passage 1

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In plain words

Longing for Mukti, man turns to the thirty-three crore gods and keeps on pleading, but his sorrows do not go. If he himself slays the ego within him, what other Mukti then? He himself is free!

Embodiments of Prema!

This world, conjured up as something seen, is a transformation of the three guṇas; it was by that transformation that it was made. It is by the transformation of the three guṇas that it is sustained. It is by the transformation of the three guṇas that it is dissolved. The guṇas are the very life-breath of this world. This world is nothing but the sum of the workings of the guṇas. Only eagerness to serve God, Bhakti, and detachment from the guṇas can carry one across these three guṇas. But to become one who is beyond the guṇas, so sacred a state, we must acquire three principal qualities: anāsakti, virakti and upekṣā.

The man who has attained anāsakti floats freely in saṃsāra.

Anāsakti means to be without any desire at all. But attachment to God must remain. Root out every other attachment, and make attachment to God alone grow. Virakti does not simply mean giving up all one's wealth, forgetting wife and children, going off to the forest and doing tapas.

To give up the wicked feeling in one's heart: that is renunciation, that itself is yoga; not leaving property and wife to go off to the forest.

You may give your interest to every religion. But you must not let the attachment of ‘it is mine’ grow.