Passage 11

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In plain words

So said Rāmadāsu. He himself is the perishable too. He himself is the body; he himself is the imperishable too. He himself is the Ātma. When, joining perishable and imperishable, he knows the eternal, he himself is all too. He himself becomes all. We can recognise this truth to a great degree in small things. How far the strength of the nation is wasting away through keeping these differences! In this body there are all these many limbs. If we cut off one of its hands, we think the hand is gone; but how much of the blood, which is common property, has been lost! How weak this body has become! In the same way, we must not break the nation into pieces. All must live together as one. Only then does great strength come. If the five fingers work together, how quickly they can do the work! Can you do any work with one finger? You can do nothing. So unity is great strength. Practice alone is its inner meaning. Hoping and blessing that the students will be ready to make these two, unity and its inner meaning, one, and to proclaim to the world a life of peace and security, I bring My discourse to a close.