Passage 1

kaṇṭigruḍḍuku kāṭuka aṇṭanaṭlu

His poems 222

īśvaraḥ sarvabhūtānāṁ hṛddēśērjuna tiṣṭhati

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In plain words

As kohl does not cling to the eyeball, as grease in no way clings to the tongue, as mud in no way clings to the lotus, so to cling to nothing: that is the Ātma.

Embodiments of Prema!

God is one without a second. Resolving, ‘I am one; let Me become many’, He Himself took on many forms, and so that beings might come to know this wondrous, unfailing, marvellous world of His, the three paths of karma, Bhakti and Jñāna were taught, in the Bhagavad Gītā. To discover the secret of this unfailing, marvellous Prakṛti, man has made efforts of many kinds, searching all the while. But the mind, the citta and Ahaṅkāra have stood in the way of his effort. As a result, unable to recognise the world as the eternal truth, man is throwing his own mind into confusion. He cannot recognise the oneness: that what is everywhere is One. With this in view, in the Gītā, in the sixty-first śloka of the eighteenth chapter:

Īśvara dwells in the heart of all beings, Arjuna, whirling all beings by His Māyā, as if mounted on a machine.

So it is said. Not stopping there, in the sixty-second śloka Kṛṣṇa made it plain: ‘Tam eva śaraṇaṃ gaccha sarvabhāvena bhārata.’ That is: if He Himself is the one who dwells in the hearts of all beings, then He must dwell in Arjuna’s heart too! That is why He said, ‘Tam eva śaraṇaṃ gaccha.’