Passage 11

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In plain words

I am in your … . Only because I am in your stomach do I … you so much strength and ability. What is My name? Rasasvarūpa, the embodiment of rasa, is My name. The name Aṅgīrasa arose. Aṅgīrasa means that He is present in every limb as the embodiment of rasa. For such a God … to be the embodiment of rasa, the digestive fire itself is the root support. … think, ‘I am eating’ … ; it is only because God, that embodiment of rasa, is within you that you eat well. … if that very form of rasa were not there, though they served you dishes enough to fill the platter, you could not … anything. As the embodiment of rasa He conducts this whole life. Whenever you take up that feeling, …vibration spreads everywhere. It becomes divine vibration. Not worldly …ration. Many devotees keep going into the temple. Even when we are in our … , in each of our homes there … a difference between the other rooms and the pūjā room. There, Divine vibrations. If you go into the kitchen, the smell of cooking comes. If you go into the pūjā room, a smell full of fragrance comes. Because pūjā and worship are … there every day, there is a divine presence there. That is why the holy ones say one should go on pilgrimage to holy places: this is what it means. Āṣāḍhabhūtis may go. Devotees for show may go. Devotees full of pomp may go. Among them there will be at least some good devotees. Their vibration too is there. So even if it is not in us, the vibrations of those holy people enter into us.

So we must always respect our elders. Only when we respect our elders, only when we respect those above us, will those younger than us respect us. If you do not respect those above you and want those below you to respect you, how will they respect you? We must give respect to the elders. That is just what I said. It is not one way traffic give and take. If we keep divinity in our heart with full faith, there is no greater sādhana than that. That very faith is the whole of sādhana. There is no use in merely doing Rāma's Name, saying ‘Rām Rām’. There is no use in thinking of Kṛṣṇa's Name. There is no use in saying ‘Sāirām, Sāirām’. This is merely like a tape recorder. No, no. Whatever Name of God you keep … in mind, you must also enter into that God's work.