In plain words
What is ours, we must offer to ourselves.
God is caught only by the power of Prema
‘Tam eva śaraṇaṃ gaccha’ means that you must surrender to yourself. Your Rāma is within you; you yourself are Rāma. You take delight in everything. The one who has the quality of delighting is Rāma himself. What tells us what to delight in, and how, is Dharma. What goes against Dharma is not enjoy. When does enjoy come? When you end joy. End joy is real enjoy. So that power of attraction is in our heart itself. Do not be drawn to what is bad. When you see something bad it may attract you, but the inner self warns you of that wrong. What comes with fear is not real enjoy. Only what gives the heart complete satisfaction is true enjoy. It is that state of the heart that the Vedas named the ‘Ātma’. The Ātma dwells in all beings. ‘Eko devaḥ sarva bhūteṣu gūḍhaḥ’: He dwells in the heart in the form of a thumb. Everyone thinks, ‘Life is in the heart’; no, no. That is only a main switch. As the Puruṣa Sūkta says, ‘Nīlatoyada madhyastha vidyullekheva bhāsvaraḥ’, that is, in the midst of dark clouds it flashes out white all at once. Not only that: there are 33 vertebrae in our spine. Between the ninth and the twelfth vertebra is the suṣumnā nāḍī. It is very radiant. That is why the suṣumnā nāḍī has been named the light of ten million suns. So brilliant a power is in our body, small as an atom. Through the life-force there, all the limbs of our body work. He is present in every limb in the form of rasa, and so they hailed God, ‘Aṅgīrasāya namaḥ.’ That Aṅgīrasa is immeasurable, that is, no measure of any kind can catch Him. He is caught only by the power of Prema. That one faith is enough. That is why Tyāgarāja too declared it. ‘There are those who came to ruin by not trusting, but those who trusted You and came to ruin are nowhere in the world, nowhere, nowhere,’ he said. Asking, ‘Where shall I search for You?’, he went on searching and searching. At last, wherever he went, he believed, ‘You are here, Rāma!’ and ‘You are my companion, before me and behind.’