Passage 5

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In plain words

However great or small you may all be in caste, creed, property, money, gold, goods and vehicles, what God looks at is Bhakti alone! What is Bhakti? Turning pure Prema toward the Paramātma is Bhakti. By strengthening our trust in this impermanent, transient world, in goods and vehicles and in persons, we are getting bound by the ropes of attachment and possessiveness. You must certainly do your duty! That does not mean you need to renounce and leave your family, your wife and children or your property. Do every action to please God, and do your duty. But keep the mind in a state of peace! These changes and arrangements belong to the outer world; they have nothing at all to do with the inner feeling. We must develop good feelings and good thoughts in the mind.

You all know it: Jesus gave a fine message in the Bible. Saying she had committed some sin, they set a woman in the marketplace and everyone kept throwing stones at her. Jesus saw this scene. He stood in their way: ‘People! You take some outward wrong deed to be a sin and torment her this much.