In plain words
One day God called Māyā. “Māyā! A great deal of disgrace is coming to Me from you. Because every man says, ‘God has Māyā as His upādhi, Māyā as His upādhi,’ you are bringing dishonour on My name. Because you are always following Me and keeping Me company, I am falling into this disgrace. So from now on you cannot stay with Me; leave Me and go far away somewhere,” He said, so the story goes. With great humility and obedience Māyā bowed: “O God! I will surely bear Your command on my head. But if You tell me where there is a place where You are not, I will go there,” she said. Then God laughed: “No place is without Me. You and I are a pair of birds. I asked you this way only for the sake of your answer,” He said, so the story goes.
Today everyone says, “God is all-pervading.” He says “all-pervading”, but nowhere can one see a person who has seen the all-pervading Satya. I cannot make out whether they use these words having understood them, or use them in Ajñāna. Every student uses words of many kinds, “Swami is Omnipresent, Omnitient.” From acquaintance with books. This all-pervasiveness is Satya. Only when you try to experience that Satya at least a little does the authority to speak of it come. If you pour even a little nectar down your throat, some real gain at least comes to you. Purity comes. When we set pots and pots of nectar outside, what result is there in it for us? We must try to experience at least a little of this Satya called all-pervasiveness. But merely uttering it in words and trying to deceive even God is a great sin. Only a rare few great souls have gone on trying to recognise it.
Through today's studies no student is seen to have the authority to recognise this all-pervasiveness. The reason is that, because they have lost the power to control the senses, they no longer have even the power to understand this all-pervasiveness. That is why they must first of all try to curb their own attachments. Saying and doing must be one. Only then can one understand, at least to some extent, the Divinity called all-pervasiveness. We must reflect: “By taking refuge in what will this Satya become clear to us?” Fruits cannot protect fruits. The tree itself protects all the fruits. The roots protect the tree. So only when we take refuge in these roots do the tree's fruits too come to us. Only when we serve those roots, that is, protect them by pouring water and manure, does that tree serve its fruit in plenty. In just the same way, when we recognise the Satya that God alone is the basis of everything and serve that alone, we can see, at least to some extent, this Satya called all-pervasiveness.