In plain words
We must believe that whatever happens is happening through That alone, and that nothing else can enter into … . If we want this śravaṇa, manana and nididhyāsana to grow, we must do … . Wherever we go, since this tongue has been given us, we must speak the holy Name, without speaking foul words, without making … , without blaming others. We must not look for faults in anyone … . We must see the Ātma alone in all. Do you know what kind of people those are who look for … in others? Dogs look for sandals. The wicked man look… … for faults, so that wicked man is equal to a dog. Look for the good, and become a good person. Even where there are faults … , in your sight regard it as faultless. When we develop such good feelings, holy feelings, in the …principle, we ourselves truly become embodiments of the Paramātma.
Embodiments of Prema! We must serve all. It is not that we worship some picture, some ido… … . We must believe the truth that in all things and in all beings this form, the form of the universe, … there as the Ātma. This does not arise on the spur of the moment. We must practise. Practice … . How much practice we put in to walk! How much practice we put in to talk! How much practice we put in to … ! This too is just the same. If we keep practising, that peace comes to us.
śrēyōhi jñānamabhyāsāt jñānāt dhyānaṃ viśiṣyatē. dhyānāt karma phala tyāga styāgā cchānti ranantaram.
How hard they toil to study for a … BA, MA! They practise. ‘Śṛṇvantu viśvē …sya putrāḥ’: if you are to take the degree that you are a son of immortality, how much practice we must do! … we must gain the degree that we are embodiments of the Ātma. ‘I am a sinner’, or ‘I am weak’, or ‘I am a traitor’ … : we must never use such paltry things at all. These are all the … of the weak. ‘Can I do so much work, can I do this work, do I have so much strength?’: we must not … … doubt. If that faith is firm, you can do anything. That is why, in Vedānta, ‘Nāya… …balahīnēna labhyaḥ’: you must not be weak in the Ātma. If you keep thinking, ‘I have none, none’, psychologically it goes without … . With the courage and daring that say, ‘I can do it, I can attain it’, ente… into this. We must make this kind of zeal and encouragement grow day by day.
We are striving restlessly for petty pleasures. How long does this petty pleasure last? It is just like a nose stuck on with … . Who knows when it will burn away. When it will fall off. When it will … away?