In plain words
In the beginning the world was all darkness. Wherever you looked, there was nothing. There was no earth. All was filled with clouds. What came after that, you do not know. For some crores of years rain fell without a break. After the rain had fallen, the earth was formed. No one knows the secret of creation. We must try to recognise the principle that is the root and the base. They look at the fruits. They look at the flowers. They enjoy them. But where is the base? The scientist looks at the flowers, the leaves and the branches. But the Vedāntin looks at the root. This scientist does not look at the root. The Vedāntin does not look at the flowers. There is no connection at all between the two of them. The branches are there only because the root is there. Without roots there are no branches. There may be roots without branches, but there are no branches without roots. To look only at the outer world and swagger that we have learned something is madness. We must see what is the base. That itself is divinity. The earth is turning. For the earth to turn, there must be some support, mustn't there! That has been called the circle. Without a support the earth could not turn. In primary school they show little children a globe. Turning it, the teachers show them: ‘This is India, this is America, this is Japan.’ To turn the globe there must be a stand. That stand is divinity. All this is what turns. We look at the world alone and enjoy it. He is in that world too. We must see that kind of divine feeling. They measure the light of the sun. Do they go near the sun? If they did, they would not come back; they would be burned to ashes. They measure the rays that come from there and report. No one can say, ‘This is exactly correct.’ That is understood by divinity alone. All has been created by God alone. Without God there is no object. Thinking that divinity is present in every object, the feeling must come: whatever you do, whatever you tell, whatever you speak, whatever you think it is GOD. If you plant a mango tree in the earth, sweet mangoes come. In the same earth the neem tree bears bitter neem fruit. There is no difference in the earth. The difference lies in the seed. The feeling of difference lies in your mind. In God there is no feeling of difference at all. You keep projecting your feelings on to God. In God there is no fault. There is no room at all for a fault to arise. All faults lie in you yourself. All sins lie in you yourself. All that is good, in every respect, lies in you yourself. That is why: yad bhāvaṃ tad bhavati. Because of a slight difference of opinion with the one beside you, you think he is bad. He is not bad. The feeling you have about him is bad. It is like this: you ate a mango. Another ate a cucumber. The one who ate the cucumber belches cucumber. The one who ate the mango belches mango. If you, having eaten a mango, say, ‘I did not get a cucumber belch,’ and he, having eaten a cucumber, says, ‘I did not get a mango belch,’ what then? What each one ate comes back to that one himself. So, the karma each one has done, none can escape without experiencing it, brother! What each one says comes back to that one himself. To speak hatred of others, or to speak accusations against others, is a great wrong. That fault is in you and appears to you. Now and then I say, ‘refletion of the innerbeing’: so many kinds of behaviour arise in you in order to cover up your faults. First of all you must curb this feeling. Only when we regard good and bad, both, as our own do we become better. Under the sway of Kali, the bad is someone else's, all the good is mine. Duryodhana and Dharmarāja went out to look for good and bad. However they were, to Duryodhana they appeared only as bad. He came to Kṛṣṇa and said, ‘Kṛṣṇa! Wherever I look in my kingdom, I see only bad people.’ At once He sent for Dharmarāja. ‘Well, Dharmaja! What is your view?’ ‘Lord! Wherever I look, I see only good people. There are no bad people,’ he said. Then He said, ‘This is your feeling; that is his feeling.’ All this is the working of each one's feelings. We must not speak ill of others. We must not search for the faults of others. Search for the good in others. Search for the faults within you. Only when you search for the faults in you do you become better. Only when you see the good in others do you become better. If you cover up the fault in you and search for the faults of others, you become still more at fault. This itself is the reason the faults of man today have grown. Everyone is good. We must go about in this kind of feeling. Students today must recognise this well and act on it. There are many powers in the world. All powers are nothing but rays of the power of God. That is why, in the Bhagavad Gītā: ‘Mamaivāṃśo jīvaloke jīvabhūtaḥ sanātanaḥ.’ You are not a part of Prakṛti. Not a part of society. Not a part of your parents. Not a part of your forefathers. You are a part of none but Me! We must show conduct worthy of the name. We are those who carry a part of God. Whatever we see, nothing but the feeling of God must arise. Whatever we do, nothing but the feeling of God must arise. Whatever we eat must be nothing but God's prasāda. They teach physics, chemistry and all these only so as to bring out this kind of feeling. Above all, develop this one thing: the principle of Prema. love is GOD, live in love.