In plain words
We have been hearing this teaching for years. We turn up at every function. We write it all down. ‘You spoke very well, Swami!’ we tell ourselves. But how many here act on it? Why should you come here? What is the use of coming? If you do not act on even one thing, if you do not put even one thing into practice, life itself is wasted. Cattle are better than you. There is our elephant, Sāigītā. She listens as she is told. She does as she is told. What intelligence! ‘We are devotees’, ‘We are devotees’, we say of ourselves. This is a most shameful word. Are we living out even one thing in our lives and showing it? Is there Śānti in even one person? Has hatred gone from even one? Has Ahaṅkāra been rooted out? Day by day Ahaṅkāra keeps growing. That is precisely why they are falling into so many hardships. All that is born turns into mere earth.
The Bond of Prakṛti and Paramātma Is Inseparable, Each the Support of the Other
That is why, they say, Prakṛti said:
Why this enmity, why this enmity, O Lord, why this enmity between us? Prema has turned to poison, the mind to soot, all is anguish.
Prakṛti is pleading with the Paramātma: ‘Lord! Why have these feuds and hatreds grown so much? The mind of every human being born in Me has become like mud. All Prema has turned to poison. Grief alone has become the fruit. Is this our connection? Prakṛti and Paramātma are bound inseparably, each the refuge of the other.’ There is no Vedānta anywhere else that sacred Bhārata does not have. In the year 1926 a British philosopher came into India. As it was British rule then, he moved freely about everywhere. He was Kristal. Returning to the British land: ‘Ah! In what unity the people of Bhārata live! What purity the Upaniṣads of Bhārata teach! The Brahma-sūtra that holds all the people of Bhārata bound together is one!