Passage 2

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In plain words

This whole world is nothing but the dwelling of God! Precisely because He is vast in form, He came to have the name ‘Brahman’. The principle that pervades wherever you look is itself His chief mark. There is no place in this world where He is not, and no name that is not His. In you, in them, in these, in everyone, what is there is only One! ‘Īśāvāsyam.’ But not everyone longs so much for such oneness. With this very thing in view the Upaniṣads said, ‘Ekohaṃ bahusyām.’ There is only One! But when that very One takes shape as many, Ānanda comes to us. For example, if we have a single hundred-rupee note in our hand, there is not so much joy. But if that same note is a hundred one-rupee notes, it is ever so joyful. Kṛṣṇa too said, ‘Sarvadharmān parityajya māmekaṃ śaraṇaṃ vraja.’ ‘Offer everything to Me. I will look after you,’ He said. How? What is the worth of this? O mad one! In the world there are many kinds of worries.

Being born is a worry; living on the earth is a worry; family life is a worry; death is a worry; all of childhood is a worry; old age is a worry; to live is a worry; ruin is a worry; all karmas are a worry; hardships are a worry; joy is a worry, a strange worry; Bhakti for Sai, which takes away all worries: take it now at least, O people, to your heart's content.

Human life is all bound up with worries. It has no worth at all. Mad one! Sunk in these worries, with this firewood of worries set on your head, how can you carry life? How can you achieve anything? How can you walk on the path of your life?