Passage 2

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In plain words

In the same way, though they could not show the principle of God directly, the Vedas, the śāstras, the Itihāsas and the Purāṇas have gone on teaching the way that says divinity is like this. When you see dense forests, great joy wells up. When you see tall hills, great delight arises. When you see flowing rivers, so much joy arises. All these are signs that show God's powers and capacities. The stars glow. The planets go round. The sun burns. The wind blows. All these are nothing but signs of the divine principle! When we recognise a spark of fire, we can recognise the nature of fire as well. One who understands a drop of water can understand the river Gaṅgā. In the same way, when one recognises the nature of Prakṛti, it becomes possible to recognise the infinite divinity. With this very thing in view the Upaniṣads declared, ‘Aṇoraṇīyān mahato mahīyān.’ What glows, what shines, what blossoms in all men is this divinity alone! But man today, because he has developed attachment to the body, cannot understand attachment to the Ātma.

We Must Know the Divinity within Humanness

We must believe every thing in the world to be divinity, and carry on the search for Satya in the fitting way. What is this search for Satya? Where is this Satya? Why search for Satya, which is everywhere? It is in this very Satya that we go on establishing what we call ‘fact’. We say the sun rises in the east every day and sets in the west. Right here we must carry on the search for Satya. Is this fact, or is it Satya? When we look in daily life with worldly sight, rising in the east and setting in the west: this is fact! But when we inquire well by the standards of research, this is not Satya. The sun stays in one place.