Passage 3

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In plain words

This Ānanda is not to be had by us in physical comforts, in physical things, in physical objects, or in feasts of rich dishes and sweet pāyasa. They ate only this food, part of God's natural creation, fruits and flowers, and they enjoyed Ānanda. Next comes drink, that is, the water we drink. Water too must be pure. This drinking water you cast out in its gross form as urine. Its subtle form is prāṇa. The prāṇa in man is formed from water. The Manas in man is made up from food. For man both Manas and prāṇa are important. As long as there is prāṇa, Manas must be there. As long as there is Manas, prāṇa must be there. Once a man is without Manas, he has no need of prāṇa. If in daily life we are to experience the true path, food and drink are essential. They must be pure and sacred. People are deluded into thinking that the power of man's Manas is formed only from physical, material substances. The powers and might of God go on dancing the tāṇḍava in great Ānanda. Śiva and Śakti, who live on the snowy mountain, have gone on dancing the tāṇḍava through the power of this food. Not only they: they made the devotees too dance. Not only the devotees: they made the whole world dance.

With the sliver of the crescent moon gleaming on His crown, with a cluster of matted locks, lovely to see, with the sheen of the heavenly river flowing through the locks, with the splendid eye on His forehead, with a throat as dark as the black jāmun fruit, with a serpent bangle on His wrist, with the elephant's hide wrapped about His waist, with holy ash shining all over His body, with a large kuṅkuma mark drawn on His brow, with lips reddened by tāmbūla, gracing the six śāstras, outshining the dark lilies and plundering their beauty, with a gleaming body of dusky hue, the One who dwells in Parthi has appeared before you today.