Passage 11

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In plain words

Fear comes only to the one at fault. The faultless have no fear at all. That very principle of Prema is within us. So we must love God, love Him, and put that fear far away. Only then will the door of your heart open. The opening of that door of the heart is Kailāsa itself. That is our splendour. That is our dwelling. The heart is the root cause of everything. So, students! The hearts of today's students are all very much soiled. No, no. Every day, clean it with the water called Prema. Put in the Vim called śraddhā and scrub. Only then will our heart shine. Twinkle Twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are. It all comes about at one stroke. In that way, when one looks at each boy, he should be like a star. Each student is a star, not a film star. You must be radiant. That radiance must shine in your faces like a star. When will it shine? We must do this work every day. We must scrub with Vim. That is faith. We must wash with the water called Prema. Only then will Ānanda be ours.

Believe in the unity in the many

Foster Prema for God; keep the welfare of people in view. Do not forget the truth that God is in all. All of you, grow little by little in the truth of the brotherhood of man and fatherhood of God, and at the very last be immersed in the feeling that you and I are one. That is unity in diversity, the chief principle in our culture of Bhārata. Believe in the unity within the many. In our culture that is called ‘namaskāra’. What does this namaskāra mean? Not to take man's five organs of action and five organs of knowledge separately, ten in all, but to bring them all together as one: that is namaḥ, namaḥ. Namaskāra is what is free of Ahaṅkāra. Some people make namaskāra in a very odd way. Others again do it as though striking with an axe. You must join both hands neatly together. The two thumbs must touch the heart neatly. Look at Hanumān.