Passage 8

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In plain words

In every human being, who is a form with the guṇas as his upādhis, they have been taking shape as the three forms. So the temple called the body is not built in one place: it is a moving temple. Wherever you go, this temple is there too. So we must try to recognise the truth that God is with us, behind us, in our home and in our eyes, and act on it. We ourselves are embodiments of God. Only when we go that far can we attain this true fullness. We can recognise that fullness. Without going that far, staying only where one is, as Chittibabu said, whenever you look, a doubting Thomas: doubts, doubts in everything. As long as these doubts are there, he will have no Śānti or happiness at all. We must believe the truth that God is ourselves, we ourselves are God, and feel oneness in every action.

Embodiments of the divine Ātma! Above all, we are doing many kinds of sādhana. From now on, not with sādhanas: we must put it into practice. What we say, what we think and what we do: we must show the oneness of these three. That is: The proper study of mankind is man. Then you will take shape as a human being. Without the oneness of these three, it is one thing in the mind, another in speech, another in action: the wicked one. You turn into a wicked one. That is why in these three, heart, head and hand, the 3H, we must show the ideal through right practice. That is why all spirituality today keeps taking shape as mere show. We give as many discourses as anyone could want. We do as much service as anyone could want. We hold bhajans. More and more, we do many kinds of sādhana. What is the use of doing all this? Without the oneness of these three. We must experience the oneness of these guṇas, sattva, rajas and tamas. Only then is there Ānanda for us. Only then is there the vision of the Ātma for us. For the Ātma, we need not go specially to some one place. This Ātma is not something that moves from one place to another. We must not think that God comes from somewhere and gives darśan. For One who is everywhere, what need is there to travel? Divinity is a power that neither comes nor goes. So when we practise, we become worthy of it. There must be unity. Ānanda lies held within oneness.

Unity alone is the well-being within happiness; however great the task, it can be won: do the little ants not all catch a serpent and kill it, here in the world?

When everyone joins as one in unity, what happiness there is! It brings the courage that ten more stand behind me, and joy, enthusiasm and encouragement.