Passage 1

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Out of Satya He created all; into Satya all creation sinks back; search, and where is the place without the glory of Satya? This is pure sattva: behold it. Man was born of Mādhava; why then has humanness been hidden away? Māyā, Māyā: this is what human birth is; is not man a man of Māyā?

Embodiments of Prema!

Humanness is joined with divinity; it did not arise apart from it. ‘Ekātma sarvabhūtāntarātma.’ The one Ātma is in all. The Ātma of all, being one, has gone on showing forth the unity in multiplicity. The body has many limbs. Hands, feet, nose, mouth, ears, head: all these are limbs belonging to the body. Yet between these limbs and the embodied one there is a close bond of kinship. So the jīva itself is the embodied one. The limbs are the body. The embodied one and the body are bound together, inseparably. To this embodied one all the limbs are his own! That is why the jīva hates none of the limbs. When any limb suffers, the embodied one does not rejoice. The reason is that all the limbs are his own! The experience is his alone! In the same way, Viṣṇu has taken the universe as His body. All the limbs that make up this universe are the very form of Viṣṇu! That is why no one at all should criticise or revile this universe.