In English
God is one: names are many
Devotees are inclined to worship the Lord under different names. They consider the names different from each other. They forget that they are all equally, embodiments of the Divine: . (Being-Awareness-Bliss). There should be no feeling of high and low. Only the one who has the feeling of oneness can be called a renunciant. It is wrong to make a distinction between and as some small-minded devotees do. Vaishnavaites and Shaivites who go to the temple hail the Lord as or respectively, as if the two names are different, though they represent the same deity. pointed out that the word is made up of the vital syllables "" and "Ma" in the and respectively. In this manner devotees should seek unity in apparent diversity rather than seek to divide what is one. The nature of the Divine can only be properly understood, by those who are filled with devotion. All should be filled with love. Love cannot flow from the of those who are steeped in selfishness and self-pride. Love flows from those who are humble. It cannot arise in those who are conceited and pompous. The love of God can arise only from loving thoughts. There must be yearning for God, just as one has to experience hunger to think of food. There is hunger for God in every one, but the disease of self-pride prevents one from feeling that hunger. The denial of God is a kind of disease. The unbeliever is afflicted by a variety of diseases like pride, envy, anger and greed.