Passage 18

In English

was once in a dilemma, “If I open the door of the heart, might escape, but if I close the main door, He may not enter the heart.” The next moment, she had second thoughts, “Where is the question of opening or closing the door of the heart when is present everywhere?” Can any door prevent from entering one’s heart? But there is the main door, that is the ecstatic feeling of surrender which is experienced when the strings of are played in deep devotion. It is said in yogic parlance, “Oh man! You endeavour to see by controlling life breath and senses, and by playing on the strings of with tears of joy. That state is verily or , and that is the main door of entry of . There is no other door. When the entire universe is the temple of God, there is no main door. To realise this truth is true divinity.”