Passage 3

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In plain words

Man sees beauty and rejoices. He sees food and swells with delight in all sorts of ways. Then the joy that man enjoys, or the food, or the beauty: does it belong to the outer world, or to the Ātma within? It is not the body that enjoys. It is the Ātma! It is not the body that, meeting a fragrance, longs for it or is carried away by it. This too is the Ātma! What sees with the eye, what hears with the ears, what feels pleasant to the mind, what delights the heart: all of it is the principle of the Ātma! These senses are mere instruments. Each and every thing arises from the inner feeling. Only when we recognise this Satya does it become possible, in some measure, to understand our divinity. Of all these actions the sun alone is the master, the steadfast and the doer!

For man the chief principle is faith

It is the sun who, struggling on with ceaseless toil, unending anxious care, boundless hopes and an anguish no one understands, brings men ever greater peace, stands as their guide and goes on teaching them as a hero of action. The sun has not the least rest. He never yields in the least to blame, praise or scorn. If the world reviles him, he does not sink. If the world worships him, he does not swell. With a divinity that neither sinks nor swells, never changing, with an even mind and supreme Śānti, he goes on doing his duty. All that he does for the world is good, never harm. In truth, what does man good or harm is his own senses! The senses themselves turn into man's enemies. Once the senses are brought under control, they become friends as well. The feeling of friend and enemy is only the weakness of man's mind! A few minutes ago a student said this.