In plain words
Scientists speak of matter and energy. In this world there is no matter. Everything is energy. This energy turns into matter. Matter turns into energy. Matter and energy are one. I have told the children many times. The moment he is born, a child; after five years, a boy; after 35 years, a man. After 75 years, a grandfather. Child, boy, man, grandfather: he is one and the same, isn't he! In the same way, because this energy is in many forms, it turns into many substances. There is no substance at all. Everything is nothing but energy.
All of you know this. Einstein carried out research in many ways. He said this whole world is nothing but energy. In the spiritual field they have long sung this very thing: ‘All is Rāma, this whole world is Rāma.’ Wherever you look, there is only what delights. What is there that we do not delight in! When we see flowers, we delight. When we see the leaves alongside, we delight. So the whole world is nothing but the principle of Rāma. Ramayati iti Rāmaḥ. The whole world is attraction. That very thing is the magnet. Put nails near a magnet. It attracts. The nails have no power. But the magnet has it. After a day or two these nails too become magnets. That same thing has been said in Vedānta: Brahmavid brahmaiva bhavati. If your bodies, pieces of iron with no power, come close to this divine power, they too turn into divine powers. They say this body is a piece of iron. But bring the bodies that are pieces of iron close to divinity. Little by little, in a few days, they turn into divine forms. Those who changed in that way are the ones in Bhārata born of a portion of God. They themselves have been called yogis. They themselves have been called maharṣis. Under so many names they have gone on spreading through the world. We must come near to divinity. Manas alone being there is of no use. The body too must come very near. This power fills every place. A small example. In villages and in towns they build temples. A few masons built the temple. They have no power in them. They built it with stones, with cement, with sand. In it a sculptor made an image from the rock of a hill and installed it. After it is installed, thousands of devotees enter the temple. Having entered: bowing to the image, performing abhiṣeka. They show their Bhakti and prapatti. But after some time that place turns into a divine place. What is the reason? It is a place where all their divine feelings have become one. Just as the pieces of iron, joined to the magnet, became magnets, so, when all the Bhakti and prapatti in them gathered there, it turned into a divine power. Because many people bathe in a tīrtha with divine feelings, it too turns into a divine, holy tīrtha. No one is doing research into any of this. They do research only in the laboratory. Outside there is a power greater than this. See for yourselves. Going into the laboratory, they mix two parts of oxygen and one part of hydrogen. It has become water. This is the conclusion the scientist states. But only there. You sit down to a meal at the table. Do you mix oxygen and hydrogen there and drink it? What is the use of something that is of no use in society? There you have learned. Here you are unable to practise. Why should you not try to learn here too? We must look to whatever is helpful to the people. We must study what brings welfare to the world. Whatever studies we have pursued, we must put those studies to use in the world. What use is learning that is not put to use there? A burden on the head. Besides this, carrying books about in great big bags is a great burden. When you go through a town, little children go along with heavy loads tied to their backs, in bags. What is the inner meaning of this? I am telling My inner meaning. ‘My dear boy! Having studied hard, you will be left with no benefit at all. Jobs are not to be had. So, from today, practise carrying these loads, for carrying loads at the bus stand or the railway station. Carrying and carrying from childhood, you will be well practised. You can work there as a labourer.’ What work are we doing by carrying so many books in this way? We must practise some things with the body. In the mind we must learn patience and perseverance. Only through these two do we progress. First of all, purity. We must take up these studies for the sake of this purity itself. I was born on the earth. Desire, anger, pride and envy are forms of the earth. Divine powers of many kinds also come forth. The influence of these divine powers is nothing but good. Through them our intelligence keeps changing. For this very change we must take the head as the chief thing. This intelligence must grow greatly in us. That is why in the Gāyatrī mantra it is said, ‘Dhiyo yo naḥ pracodayāt’: grant that my intelligence be radiant. In this Gāyatrī mantra there are description, meditation and prayer. The description is of nine kinds. Oṃ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ: the One who is in this world, in this Manas, in this Jñāna; tat savitur vareṇyaṃ: That I have come to know. Bhargo devasya dhīmahi: remove all this darkness and grant my power of Buddhi. As long as this darkness remains, there is no light.