Passage 2

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If our anguish is to go, sādhana …. Through this sādhana joy comes to us. Through this very joy, delight … for us. If we are to gain this joy and delight, we must destroy difference and division. Only when we put … differences far away does the right to receive joy and delight … for us. But the feeling of attachment that has hounded us from birth to birth torments us. Through this … itself Ahaṅkāra grows. If this Ahaṅkāra is to be rooted out, possessiveness must …. As long as this Ahaṅkāra remains, man cannot attain Ātmajñāna. This Ahaṅkāra grows … through possessiveness alone. Attachment there must certainly be. Of what kind should that attachment … be? We should grow attachment to Divinity. We must … that Divinity is in everyone too. We must believe in the idea, 'Ekovaśī sarvabhūtāntarātma.' 'Ekaṃ sat viprā bahudhā vadaṃ… we must believe in that truth. We must believe in the teaching 'Ekohaṃ bahusyāṃ' as well. Only when this faith grows … will this humanness turn into Divinity.

If this Ahaṅkāra is to be rooted out, we must take part in service. I said this very thing yesterday. … is the way to love God? The best way to love God is to love all and serve all. We must … love. We must serve everyone. At one time Annamācārya said, 'When we bring holy water from the Gaṅgā and say we will do … worship, the fish and frogs in the Gaṅgā say it is their leavings; aṅgā, what am I to do!' So he said. 'You carry off our … and do pūjā to the shop?' they say. What is to be done? In this way, if we examine every …, things are full of faults. From whatever angle we look, they appear riddled with faults. Only when we look with a divided … does this become a fault-finding vision. A man with a dual mind is half dead. When we look not with a … vision but with the one vision, everything is Divinity itself. And then Annamā… thought further. How do this difference, this joy and this delight come about? Man's … alone are the root cause of it. It was then he said, 'In whatever measure anyone thinks of You, in that measure alone are You'; … as one thinks, so He appears. If one thinks no, He appears as no. That is why the noes and yeses are our …; to Sai everything is yes, yes. Through the difference in our feelings, these joys and delights do … and keep increasing discord. You will have seen the cātaka bird. There is all the water it needs … the earth. But it does not desire that water at all. It tries … to feed on these raindrops alone. But though fearful thunder and lightning and a downpour keep falling ….