Passage 2

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In plain words

To separate the water that has mixed with milk, no mantra, no yantra and no tantra is of any use. Only when the milk is boiled well over a fire does the water mixed in this milk leave it as vapour and part from it. In just the same way, impure qualities enter the pure heart of man and destroy his humanness. They lower its worth. To separate himself from these bad qualities and bad practices, man takes up many kinds of sādhana. Man tries to rid himself of the bad qualities that have entered him by performing japa, dhyāna, bhajan, and rites such as yajñas and yāgas. But all these sādhanas only bring satisfaction to small minds; they do not help to drive the bad qualities out of the heart. If we want to separate the impure qualities that have entered this pure heart, we must burn them in the fire called divine Prema for God. This is what they called ‘saṃskāra’. Only when it is refined in the fire of Prema do the bad qualities go and the citta, our natural form, take shape as ever pure. The sun's rays or the sun's heat cannot burn cotton. However straight and however fierce the rays may be, they cannot burn cotton. Only when a magnifying glass is placed between the sun and the cotton does the cotton lying beneath turn to ash with the help of that glass! In the same way, only when the magnifying glass called Prema is held between the sun's rays called Buddhi and the cotton called impurity, called bad qualities, does the impure cotton turn to ash through this glass.

Delusion is Māyā; Brahman is God

It is clear to us that attachment to the Ātma is heaven, and that attachment to the body is itself hell. But what does man experience? He follows only attachment to the body; he does not follow attachment to the Ātma. Man today sees nothing but petty feelings.