Passage 8

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In plain words

Reflection, reaction, resound. If you go near a great hill and shout …, it too gives back an echo. Reaction. If you go before a mirror and say 'namaskāram', the reflection too says namaskāram. This reflection, reaction, resound is your own, but … are real. Reflection, reaction, resound: temporary. You are permanent. Try to recognize …. You must become one in divinity. You yourself are God. God is not … from you. You are also God. If you are like that, you become pure in every way. … will power. That itself is the power of the Ātma. We must try to earn this power of the Ātma. For the sake of fulfilling … desires, we must not pass our life doing bumps jumps, bumps jumps, … in hardship. What use is this frog? It stays right on the lotus. … cannot take the honey in that lotus. It eats only insects. But … come from far away and take the nectar in that lotus. There are cows. In the udder there is the milk that is in …. Right at the milk there are many pests. Those pests do not drink the milk; they drink only blood. But only its own calf drinks the milk. Because of this the calf's mother feels very …. It does not let the others come near. But it draws its own calf close. In the same way, if … to attain God, we must become God's very own. Only then can … drink the milk that is the nectar of Jñāna. We must become the own calf. That is brahmavit brahmaiva bhavati. One must remain oneself. All these too come to us only through … the Prema principle. Without this Prema there is no life at all. Just because there is Prema, we must not bring it in as … pleases us. We must bring it in along the right path. We must not bring it in along a crooked path. If we go along … path, we can enjoy a happy life, a peaceful life, joyfully, all our life. Along with this we must also study the learnings of Prakṛti. In this learning too you must pass well. You have every convenience here. There is no shortage of food. There is no shortage of rest. There is no shortage of conveniences. When everything is favourable in every way, if you cannot develop this right life, how will you … to master the senses in times full of hardship? In the outer world there is not a moment's peace. People keep thinking something or other. I am happy. 'I am happy': so they keep acting, only artificially. No, no: with their lips they … happy. In the heart there is no happy. The children here are happy in their hearts. Happiness … in union with God. Only then does it take the form of the Prema principle.