Passage 10

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In plain words

So every human being who wishes to experience divinity must remove the faults of the Buddhi and purify the Buddhi. What must we purify? We must remove the Ahaṅkāra and attachment in us and purify ourselves. When this Ahaṅkāra leaves us, attachment naturally lessens. This Ahaṅkāra is the quality dearest to every human being. Even with no good qualities in him, a man must go with a little swagger when he goes out. There are many doctors. They do not even have a proper practice, poor things! Even at home things do not go smoothly. But when they come out, they must go in a car. In the same way, people in every profession too have to put on some show outside, that is, in the world outside.

The divinity in humanness must nourish humanness

In the Bhāgavatam there is a demon called Madhukaiṭabha. What does madhu mean? Where does this demon live? How are we to recognise him? Where does he roam? He lives in the heart of every human being. What does that mean? What is sweetest to every human being is Ahaṅkāra. Madhukaiṭabha is the very form of this Ahaṅkāra. Kṛṣṇa slew that Madhukaiṭabha. That is the slaying of the demon. In the same way, through these ten days the Devī slew the demons. What is the demonic? The distorted sights, distorted actions and distorted feelings that arise in man. In man there are no feelings that go with humanness. Because there are feelings that go with demonhood, the Devī went on rooting out this feeling called demonhood and fostering the feeling called divinity. But to slay the demonhood in man, from where must gods come? The divinity that moves in this humanness must nourish humanness. That is the true inner meaning.