In plain words
Character is your form. Just because you have hands, feet, nose and mouth, all of these, you are not a human being. Character is the true form. That character itself is the embodiment of Prema. There are no faults of any kind in it. Prema alone makes the whole world one! Wherever you bring in Prema, there the feeling of the one Ātma is present. There Ānanda overflows. When these two, Prema and Ānanda, come together, Śānti becomes our very nature.
God Is the Embodiment of Prema
Today, when people say, ‘There is no Śānti, there is no Śānti’, where is it to come from? Is there Prema in you? There is none, is there? When there is no Prema, how is Śānti to be had? So we must not be deceived by looking at something or other. Seeing the value of humanness, we …
Students!
Will the snake die if you pound on its anthill?
God is not satisfied merely because we put on outward show.
If you punish your body, will the enjoyment of sense objects cease? By giving up hunger and thirst, does one become a knower of the Ātma? If you do not know who you are, how will you gain the Jñāna of the principle?
You must come to know who you are. Only then has this its right value. God is the embodiment of Prema. Love is GOD. Live in LOVE: you must develop that principle of Prema more and more. But you must grasp the matter of ‘Whom must we love, and how?’ We must not offer complete Prema to anyone but God alone. If we do, it goes onto the wrong path. Only as much water gathers in it as the vessel will hold.