Passage 2

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… this verse is enough. The whole of Vedānta is contained in it. For the word 'he' the Sanskrit is saḥ; for the word 'I' the Sanskrit is aham. When these two join, it becomes so'ham. So'ham: I am That. So in this small word, That itself is I. I am That. This and that. 'This' is the body. 'That' is the Ātma. 'That' is what they call what stays far away. What stays near they call 'this'. Near to what, far from what? What stays far from the senses is 'that'. What stays near the senses is 'this'. So, because it stays … near the senses, this is the body. This itself is delusion. Because it stays far from the senses, it is 'that'. What does this 'near' and 'far' mean? That is, to the feelings of your mind the far appears near …. This is what is in the Veda: 'Dūrāt dūre antikeca'. As far away as you think He is, that far away He is. As near as you think, that near He is. If we make our vision full of Prema, creation turns full of Brahman. How? Look now. If you put blue glass to your eye, the whole world looks blue. If we put on red glasses, the world looks red. If we put on white, the world looks just white …. If we turn our vision into Prema, all creation looks full of Brahman.

God is the very form of Prema. Love is God. Live in Love. That is why this fullness of Brahman lies in the vision itself. It is not in creation. Our happiness, our joy or our worry does not come from somewhere and settle in us. If we inquire, 'What is the shape of worry?', it is mental created worry. We must inquire what the mind is. There is a small story about it. We should tell it to the children. A marriage is taking place. The people of the bride's side and the bridegroom's side came there. Some relatives came on the bride's side. All the relatives of the boy's side and the girl's side came. Those of the girl's house must look properly after those who came with the boy. In a wedding house this is a chief mark of our Indian culture. The bridegroom's party behave well only when they are given great respect; otherwise they keep quarrelling with them. They put the bridegroom's party up in a house. Two or three people from the bride's house were serving them with humility and obedience: seeing to their meals, making every arrangement for them, letting them know the hour to come, in this way. Meanwhile, what happened was this: a man entered among them. He goes over to the bridegroom's side. 'What is all this, sirs! You do not come on time. We have cooked and kept it ready. How many times must we call you?' So he throws his weight about on their side.