Passage 7

Divine is unified form of Sat-Chit-Ananda

Everything in the universe, from an ant to the Absolute, is a manifestation of Sat-Chit-Ananda. Sat is that which transcends the three categories of Time Past, Present, and Future. Chit refers to Paripurna-jnana (total awareness). Where these two are shining in unison, there is the Bliss Divine. Hence, Ananda (Bliss) is not something separate from the other two. They cannot be trisected. The One is radiant in the three as an integral expression. For instance, fire has three qualities: heat, light and redness. These are not separate from each other. Likewise, the Divine is the unified form of Sat-Chit-Ananda. Today men, who have read the scriptures or listened to the discourses of scholars, imagine that Sat-Chit-Ananda abides in some special place. This is the root cause of their ignorance of the Real. You are the embodiment of Sat-Chit-Ananda. Everything around you is a manifestation of Sat-Chit-Ananda. Forgetting his own true nature and separating himself from the Divine, man becomes a prey to numerous troubles. A blind man knows that the world exists, but is unable to see it. Likewise, people believe from the teachings of the scriptures and of the learned ones that Sat-Chit-Ananda exists, but very few have direct experience of the Divine. They must strive for such direct experience. This is the primary goal of man. The Upanishads have declared that what does not exist cannot be made to exist. What exists cannot be wished away. Hence, man has to accept what exists and base his life on it. Sat-Chit-Ananda is the essential nature of everyone. Realisation of this calls for spiritual endeavour.