Passage 5

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Remember God. Where is Govinda? He is in you alone. Divinity is not in some place outside. It is everywhere. Inside and outside, it is everywhere. But one who knows nothing is searching for God. This is nothing but foolishness. This is not something to be searched for. It is something to be known. In what way? If you put away the bad qualities you have, it comes out of its own accord. All these have covered it. If you take away what has covered it, your own svarūpa is revealed to you.

There are many powers in man. Whatever these scientists are discovering, all those powers are in man himself. They keep making only outward researches; they are not making inner researches. There is the man. If you take a photo with a camera, that man's picture comes out as a photo. But what kind of picture comes out? What parts there are on the body, what clothes he has put on, what colours there are: all of that comes out. But what is outward comes out; what is within does not come out. But if you take an X-ray photo, the bones come out. Today's education is like these outward photographs. Spiritual education is like an X-ray photo. It shows everything that is inside. So the spiritual is most necessary. Today education is taking shape without all three: the moral, the dhārmic and the spiritual.

Viśvāmitra, in those days, did great tapas. By doing tapas he discovered the Āditya Hṛdaya. From the Āditya Hṛdaya all the weapons began. With such great weapons, why did he seek refuge with Śrī Rāmacandra? Why did he turn to Śrī Rāmacandra to kill those rākṣasas? There are certain rules there. While Viśvāmitra was doing tapas he had to perform a yāga. While performing a yāga, that person must not take to any violence. He had taken up the vow of the yāga. To keep the vow, no anger or hatred of any kind should arise in him. Since he was performing the yāga standing as Brahmā, he asked that Rāma should be there to help him. Who is Rāma? Not the son of King Daśaratha: "Ramayatīti Rāmaḥ". Ātmārāma. The principle of the Ātma is everywhere. The Ātma is in all. This consciousness itself is the form of God. It is in everyone, the same in all.

We must not go against our conscience in the least.