Passage 3

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In plain words

To see God in you is no greatness. You must see yourself in God. That is the right principle of Prema. As long as your own form and features are not seen in God, you are still a selfish man! You are not one who lives by the principle of the good of others. So in every matter, in this world of Prakṛti, you must keep recognising a feeling of limit.

Ānanda is found only in God, who is Ānanda Himself

Every human being hopes for Ānanda. What is Ānanda? In the language of Vedānta this very thing was called ‘yoga’. Today people think that yoga means performing practices such as prāṇāyāma and pratyāhāra. That is not what yoga means. Yoga means Ānanda. Where do we find this Ānanda? We find it only from Him who is Ānanda. We do not find Ānanda in possessions and vehicles, or in food and pleasures, or in positions in the world of Prakṛti, or in circumstances. This Ānanda is found by us only in God, who is Ānanda Himself. But when do we gain this Ānanda? Our Srikanth said it. The gopīs, Rādhā, all of them, kept remembering Kṛṣṇa without break, in the feeling of oneness. Who are the gopīs? Who is Rādhā? Taking them to be merely women, people have been raising many kinds of misconceptions, increasing the harm and forgetting the truth. Our thoughts and resolves are the gopīs. Manas, which is the sum of all our thoughts and resolves, is Rādhā. Our thoughts and resolves and our Manas must melt into Kṛṣṇa, who is ‘prajñā’. That is what they called ‘Prajñānaṃ brahma’. This prajñāna pervades not only our body, our Manas, our Buddhi and our antaḥkaraṇa, but everywhere. That is, ‘Antarbahiśca tatsarvaṃ vyāpya prajñā svarūpaḥ.’ This very prajñā they have been calling ‘Brahman’. That is, Constant Integrated Awareness. Our feelings, our Manas and our thoughts and resolves must merge in this prajñā.