Passage 19

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In plain words

There is no place or thing in the world without divinity

Embodiments of Prema! If you want to recognise the principle of divinity, you must first grasp that divinity is everywhere. In the world there is no place, no thing, without divinity, none at all. ‘Guru Pūrṇimā’ means the full moon. A moon without any spots. ‘Candramā manaso jātaḥ cakṣo ssūryo ajāyata.’ The moon means our own Manas! When this Manas is whole and full, that is Guru Pūrṇimā. It gives a fine light. That is the power of Guru Pūrṇimā; gathering all the disciples and having one's feet worshipped by them: these are not the marks of Guru Pūrṇimā. However many pradakṣiṇas you make, without dakṣiṇā there is no fruit, they say. So, dakṣiṇā and pradakṣiṇā. What is this dakṣiṇā? Offering your Prema is dakṣiṇā. What does pradakṣiṇā mean? Knowing that what is everywhere is God alone is pradakṣiṇā. If we recognise these two principles well, every day is Guru Pūrṇimā! Everything is Guru-hood! ‘The very moment one knows the secret, the mind itself becomes their Guru.’ So long as the secret is not known, there is only darkness! If you recognise Satya, that is Guru-hood. So, as for the Guru: God alone is the Guru; God is the Guru. There are no other Gurus in the world! Think of God.