Passage 7

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In plain words

Your eyes are one and the same; when they look with a worldly feeling, this turns into Prakṛti. When you look at Prakṛti with the feeling of God, this very thing takes shape as God. Foolish one, you long to see God. You are seeing God. All that is seen is God Himself. All heads are the very form of the Virāṭ. Every object is the very form of God. Every person is the very form of God. Every thing is the very form of God. Seeing the form of God and still thinking, ‘I must see God’: how narrow a mind yours is! What do you think God is like? By seeing what would you believe it is God? You yourself do not know what God is like. Then by seeing what will you believe it is God? That itself is the foolishness. Everything is divinity itself. When you hold that faith in God firmly, there is no faith beyond it.

Once King Parīkṣit was questioning Śuka. In seven days his life would come to an end. That was a sage's curse. Why should I waste these seven days? Resolving, ‘I will make them fruitful in the thought of God,’ he sent for the sage Śuka and was listening to many teachings. Śuka was a brahmacārī. Such a one went on describing the inner truth of the Gopīs beautifully. A doubt arose in Parīkṣit. Master! The Gopīs knew no learning of any kind. They practised no sādhana of any kind. They know none of the Vedas, Śāstras, Itihāsas or Purāṇas. How did God come under the sway of such Gopīs? Foolish one! Can everyone see God merely by knowing the Vedas, Śāstras, Itihāsas and Purāṇas? The Vedas, Śāstras, Itihāsas and Purāṇas can only describe; for the seeing, there must be purity of heart. Merely by reading the Śāstras, knowledge of a worldly kind may be gained. This is only knowledge of Prakṛti, not divine Jñāna. If you want divine Jñāna, this Śāstra is not the chief thing. This Śāstra changes the nature of the mind. A little boy sets the Rāmāyaṇa before him and turns it page after page. In the same way a scholar turns it one page at a time. This man is a great scholar. The boy knows nothing. But the turning of the pages is the same. The boy is looking at the pictures. The scholar is looking at the subject. This is the very difference.

Once an officer was in his office. At home the boy was crying, so the wife sent him off, telling him to go and sit with his father. The father was in the office. There too the boy pulled at the papers and made mischief.