Passage 11

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In plain words

People such as these are the very ones who come forward to criticise God.

Man must without fail do the work he has to do

No one has the right to criticise God. By His will God can do anything. All work done without selfishness is for the good of others! God is in all.

The whole universe is the many forms of Viṣṇu; in all beings, at all times, the Lord's divine power alone rules; all the countless living beings are filled with God!

Every man is an embodiment of God! When you first build up the faith, ‘I am an embodiment of God,’ there will be no room at all for entering this mean path. The divinity in all is one and the same! ‘Ekātmasarvabhūtāntarātma.’ But so high a state is not within everyone's reach. Yet we must strive. Without effort we can gain nothing. The lion is the king of beasts. If, on the strength of ‘I am the king of beasts, after all!’, he goes and sits in his cave, which beasts will come and offer themselves up as his food? Even the king of beasts must do his own duty. He must fall upon the beasts and hunt. Only then is his stomach filled. If, instead, man neglects his duty and sits back expecting God to do everything, that is mere laziness, not true Bhakti and surrender. Man must without fail do the work he has to do. For that very purpose humanness came into being.

‘I’ is the first name of the Ātma

Embodiments of the divine Ātma! Everyone who is a human being must strive to recognise his own Satya. Who am I? The body? The mind? The Buddhi? The citta?