Passage 3

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In plain words

This very one they have also called the heart. The heart, I, God, Aham … are other names of the Ātma. So the Ātma is present in all human beings, unseen, dwelling within, … .

Man has been called vyakti, vakti. The one who makes manifest what was unmanifest is called … . What is unmanifest? That itself is the principle of consciousness. In man, at all times and in every state, … the divine power has been carrying life along. It is because each person cannot recognise this truth that he falls into all sorrows. Whatever … … befall the body, the senses, Manas and Buddhi, man grieves. When illness comes to the body, man grieves. When some disappointments come in the mind, he grieves. When Buddhi, in its own way, … … the right decision, he grieves. When the senses in the body are not as they should be, he grieves. … the cause of this sorrow is the body, Manas, the senses and Buddhi alone. Sorrow is not the svabhāva of man.

If it were his own svabhāva, it could not be got rid of. If the svabhāva itself is lost, … too is lost. A small example. There is jaggery. Its svabhāva is sweetness. If it loses that sweetness which is its svabhāva, it is no longer jaggery at all. In the same way, if sorrow were man's svabhāva, … that sorrow, there would be no humanness at all. So sorrow is not the svabhāva of man. Ānanda alone is the svabhāva of man. Forgetting our svabhāva, believing in the nature of the body, which is foreign to us, we … many sorrows. There is one thing that is the basis of everything. That itself is hidden. It is without form. Whose very form is consciousness … this very one: 'nirguṇaṃ niraṃjanaṃ sanātanaṃ nikētanaṃ nitya śuddha buddha mukta nirmalasvarūpiṇaṃ'. So they said. So this … … true and eternal principle dwells in man, and it is this alone that makes all works be done. But … , unable to recognise this holy truth, falls into the sense of being the doer, as though he alone does everything, he alone enjoys it, he alone gives it to … … . The … that all this happens by man's effort is not right. How far does man's effort go? In the life of nature, his own … … provides only up to a point. Now, what … … does man make for his heart to beat? No effort need be made for this. It is natural to it. The blood that is in the body … goes on being supplied everywhere. What effort does man make for this? This is … to it. However many kinds of work man is doing, the breathing in and breathing out … … without a break. What effort does man make for this? Whether in sorrow or in joy, whether awake or asleep, in the waking, dream and deep-sleep states alike, the breathing in and out goes on naturally.