Passage 1

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In plain words

As fragrance dwells in flowers, so God dwells in you, if you would see; with your wits gone astray, like the musk deer, why do you search for God, you foolish one? As fire lies in firewood, as oil shines forth in sesame seeds, God is filling everything, wherever you look; where are you searching for God, you foolish one?

Embodiments of Prema!

Man is unable to recognise the Divinity established in every particle of the world. The whole world is divine: Īśvarassarvabhūtānāṃ. If every man inquires well into this truth, this Divinity becomes clear to him. In this physical world, through worldly observation, man comes to understand everything, yet forgets only the Divinity within himself, and passes himself off as a jñānī.

Every karma that man does in this world is equal to a yajña. All the karmas done outside are only reflections of the karmas turned within. Outside, it is the karma-yajña. Within, it is the brahma-yajña. But people do not understand how to recognise the principle of yajña rightly and act on it. The very Divinity that lies within humanness is the Supreme Principle pervading everywhere; they make no effort to recognise this truth. Taking the body and the senses to be what matters most, man wastes his body, his time and his karma too, for the sake of the comforts and riches that will satisfy them. If you inquire whether the pleasures and joys that come in physical life give man satisfaction, they give no satisfaction at all. If we inquire only here, on the spiritual path, there is, first, Ānanda; second, santōṣa. People think it is through sukha that this santōṣa comes. All the objects in the world can give only sukha; they cannot give Ānanda. Ānanda is not to be found in objects, nor in the things of the senses, nor in persons; Ānanda is nothing other than the Ātma-tattva that springs forth from within oneself.