Passage 1

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In plain words

By karmas of merit, and by sacrifice on earth, one must foster the principles of Prema; subduing the demonic and fostering the divine principle, lead your daily life, O man!

In this vast universe, for the mind of man to be narrow is a great disgrace. God is the One whose form is the universe. Since such a God is in every individual, the heart of every human being must be supremely broad. Today, because man forgets God and passes his time trusting only the material and the worldly, the mind is turning narrow. When you contemplate the Viṣṇu principle, which is vastness itself, your own mind grows broad. So, first of all, man must make his heart broad. Instead of proclaiming sacred ideals in society, man today is handing out narrow and petty ideals. Every ideal of man must be supremely wonderful, pure and broad. That is why: Life x infinity = GOD. Body x infinity = the Virāṭ-svarūpa. Mind x infinity = Hiraṇyagarbha. Man himself is unable to recognise his own infinite power. When he goes on living his life, thinking of himself always as infinite, his life gives society an infinite ideal. This infinite power is present in everything. For this there are three kinds of illustration. The first is the pāramārthika. The second is the vyāvahārika. The third is the prātibhāsika.

The pāramārthika, the vyāvahārika and the prātibhāsika: these three are not separate. The divinity in all three is one and the same. Without water there are no waves. Without waves no foam arises. This foam rests on the waves. Water, waves and foam: in all three the water is one and the same. This is what they called the Trikūṭa-svarūpa of God. That is, the oneness in all three is divinity itself. The pāramārthika itself must be present in the vyāvahārika. But man today thinks there is no connection whatever between the vyāvahārika and the pāramārthika.