In plain words
‘Of all creatures, a human birth is hard to win.’ Human birth is very sacred. It is the highest. It is an ideal. It is to be followed. It is to be experienced. … sacred human birth we fail to understand rightly, and we … laying it waste. Embodiments of the divine Ātma. In this world God first … water …; water itself is God's first form. It is by water that man … . Water also has a second name, jīvanaṃ. All of life rests joined … water. Without water there is no world at all. Everywhere, across this whole world, … three parts are water. Taking such a God, whose form is water, as … , we forget the divinity and put it far from ourselves.
The second is air. Without air there is no life at all. Moment by moment we experience air in the form of our … and out-breath. In a single day we take in air and let it out 21,600 … . Truly, without taking … and letting go of air, our life itself would not last. So God, in the form of air, … pervades the world. We think of it as air, but we do not … it as God.
For this life in human form, fire is utterly essential. This fire is everywhere. Though the fire in wood is not seen by our eyes, when stick rubs against stick, fire grows in it. In just this way, fire pervades everything. With the reflection of the sun, the moon and the rest, it enters the … of Manas and takes shape as the digestive fire.
Truly, if there were no digestive fire in our body, the food we eat could not take the form of the seven tissues, change into muscle, nerve, bone and blood, and give the human frame the strength and contentment it needs. When each one asks himself, ‘Where is God?’,
Becoming Vaiśvānara, I dwell in the bodies of living beings; joined with prāṇa and apāna, I digest the four kinds of food.
God is present in our … in the form of the digestive fire. God is … in all: ‘All this is the dwelling of the Lord.