Passage 5

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In plain words

There is no way to stay out of His sight. He kādalāḍu. So it is a mistake to think that nobody has seen us merely because I kept out of sight. We must recognise the truth that there is One who sees everyone. So we must make every effort to do good, as far as we can, without doing wrong anywhere. This is the chief duty of the children of today. When you abide in that kind of purity, divinity is within you. You need not go searching for divinity yourselves. It springs up right there. There is an unripe fruit. The fruit is astringent. After a while it turns sour. After a while longer, sour and sweet both come together in it. When it … fruit, sweetness comes. Where did that sweetness come from? It came from this astringency itself. The astringency itself turns sour. The sourness turns again into sour-sweet, and from that it parts off the sourness and turns all of it into sweetness. So when we come to a pure state, the sweetness does not come from somewhere else. From this very impurity the sweetness comes. Ratnākara, who robbed on the highways and lived as a thief, became the root cause of the Rāmāyaṇa that gives joy to all. Vālmīki, who had dealt out grief, gave the śloka and put an end to grief. What is the reason for this? The sinful deeds he had done were the cause of the grief. Because he put that grief away and entered into meritorious work, he became the maker of the śloka and put an end to the grief of all. But merely by our reciting a śloka, grief does not end. We must put the inner meaning of that śloka into practice. Only then does grief end. Children, become pure of heart and pure in feeling, keep full faith in the principle of the Paramātma, and perform pure karma.