Passage 11

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Here, I am offering my heart. Then God too says, ‘Take it; I am giving you sugar.’ ‘Yadbhāvaṃ tadbhavati.’

God Takes Whatever Form the Devotee Asks For

In whatever way you offer, in that way God too blesses you. So first make the feelings within you steady. God never changes. In your feeling, a change comes over God's words. What form has water? What form has air? None at all. God too is just so! Through the bond of the devotee's Prema He takes that form. If you put air into a foot ball, it takes that form. If you put air into a balloon, it has the balloon's form. Whatever vessel you pour water into, it takes that form. What is God's form? He takes on the very form you long for. God has no distinctions such as ‘this form only’ or ‘that form only’. Whatever form the devotee asks for, He takes that form

He who bears all forms, the Serene One; He who bears all names, the Auspicious One; the form of Sat-Cit-Ānanda, the One without a second, Satyaṃ Śivaṃ Sundaraṃ.

God, as the very form of Śānti, takes on all forms, it is said! He takes on all names as His own, it is said! Who is He? Sat Cit Ānanda. ‘Saccidānandarūpaṃ, advaitaṃ, satyaṃ śivaṃ sundaraṃ.’ How beautiful it is! In truth the three are one! Satya itself is Sundaraṃ. Without Satya, where would Sundaraṃ come from? There may be attraction, but there will be no beauty. Satyaṃ śivaṃ sundaraṃ. When that Sundaraṃ joins with Satya, it is goodness. These three are one. These are what Plato went on teaching. Aristotle was Plato's disciple. ‘My son, you have studied all the Śāstras. What is in them all is only three! Satyaṃ śivaṃ sundaraṃ. Truth, goodness, beauty: where these three are, man becomes God,’ he taught.