Passage 9

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In plain words

The children are not all thinking such deep thoughts. A small word. People say, ‘I come nitya.’ What does nitya mean? It carries a very great meaning. People think nitya means every day. Nitya means that which does not change. What is eternal, what is true, what the three times cannot touch, what does not change in the three times. That is nitya. A word with so great a meaning, nitya, we take to mean the day. In the language of Vedānta, each word has a vast and precious meaning.

God is the very form of the trikūṭa

Students! Our life is a pāramārthika life. But what we live now is vyāvahārika. Its fruit is prātibhāsika. Pāramārthika, vyāvahārika, prātibhāsika. We must see the oneness of these three. This is what they called the trikūṭa. God is the very form of the trikūṭa! What does trikūṭa mean? The ocean. The ocean is the pāramārthika. In the ocean, waves arise one after another. This is the vyāvahārika. Where do these waves arise from? They arise from the ocean itself. Whatever is in the ocean, the same is in the wave. Whatever qualities are in the ocean, those same qualities are in the wave. From the ocean called pāramārthika arise the waves called vyāvahārika. In this vyāvahārika too there must be pāramārthika feelings. In this vyāvahārika too there is foam, which is the prātibhāsika. In the ocean, in the waves and in the foam, the qualities are the same. Only then can we call them waves.

For one who has drunk the nectar of Prema for God, there is no rebirth

Students! From the ocean of Sat-Cit-Ānanda have arisen the waves of humanness.