Passage 2

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In plain words

It takes shape only in sacrifice; in selfishness we cannot find it.

The divinity within humanness is motherhood, that sweetness of feeling!

If man loses that sweetness of feeling, he becomes one who has lost his very humanness. The divinity within humanness is motherhood, that sweetness of feeling! To protect her children, the mother offers herself up, gives away everything she has, and toils to keep her son safe. Only through the sacrifice the mothers of Bhārata have made has motherhood grown so great in worth. ‘Na karmaṇā na prajayā dhanena tyāgenaike amṛtatvamānaśuḥ’: there is no immortality, no deathlessness, other than the sacrifice that lies within humanness. The sweetness, the divinity, the freshness and the sacredness of feeling that are in motherhood we find on no other path. Pouring out her blood and her all, that mother offers up everything she has to protect her children. Today we make no effort at all to cherish a mother's Prema. Śrī Rāma declared, ‘Mother and motherland are greater even than heaven.’ God is without attributes and without form. People worship the unmanifest God in many ways. God is not within easy reach of everyone. Trusting in such divinity and worshipping it, we receive Ānanda in many ways.

Though the five elements, the five sheaths, the five senses and the rest are the same for all men, there is a difference in their resolve and their wavering

In the culture of Bhārata the chief precepts are these: let your mother be God to you, let your father be God to you, let your teacher be God to you, let your guest be God to you. The mother alone, within man's reach, seen before his eyes and felt in experience, is the foremost deity. The mother's wishes, the mother's joy, the mother's ways are all plain to her sons!