Passage 6

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In plain words

So faith in the Ātma is fail… … to hold firm. You have a mother. There is a father. There are children. But you never stop loving this mother, this father, these … , whatever the situation, do you! However many kinds of trouble they … , though they cause pain, people feel that they go on loving them all the same. If a mishap befalls their … , they suffer even pain they cannot bear. The reason: only when the belief is firm, this is my … … , this is my mother, this is my child, does one fall prey to that pain. … relationships are only clouds that drift past in between. But because you lack the full conviction that the eternal and true principle of the Ātma is my Ātma, … my God, my Lord, many doubt… arise in you.

When the feeling ‘my father’ is truly in you, how … your love for him must be! You go on increasing your love for this body, which is like a bubble on water, … , but in the eternal, true and spotless principle of the Ātma, the faith that this is my Ātma wavers in you. The … reason is believing the true to be Asatya, and Asatya to be true. What is true, and eterna… … , is … alone. Man, who should be building firm faith in this, is building bodily ties and … . That is why faith is not steady. If we are to have firm faith, the feeling ‘mine’ must settle in it. As long as that is lacking, we are not … . We cannot attain true bliss. We cannot reach the place that is eternal and true. All thes… … are only the nature of …delusions. As long as delusion lasts, Brahman stays far from us. The very moment we let go of … , Brahman is revealed to us.

We must firmly believe the truth that the divinity in all is one. The… … there will be no room in this world for any kind of distinction. There will be no room at all for quarrels and turmoil… . There will be no room at all for this rāga and dvēṣa. It is because of growing differen… … , developing rāga and dvēṣa and forgetting divinity, that human… is sinking lower day by day. So, in human life, what must be recognised first … : in this matter we hear I, I. We must recognise that matter called I. That itself is the Ātma … . Only when one stands steady in this feeling of the Ātma: this is the true goal. This is the root cause for the … of all problems. Today the world is full of problems. The … of these problems is rāga and dvēṣa.