Passage 3

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In plain words

When we do actions without desire, never letting go of the thought of God in any circumstance, taking part in work done for the good of others, that is a great dīkṣā. At all times and in every state, whatever obstacles our resolves may meet, only the person who takes no account of them, bears them, pushes through them and moves on is worthy of God's affection. Not sinking at sorrow, not swelling at joy, holding to equanimity and pursuing the quest for Satya: that alone is true dīkṣā. ‘Such a one is most dear to Me,’ said the Teacher of the Gītā. Now, who is the fifth? One who has no expectations of any kind, one who has inner purity. One who has dīkṣā. Through dīkṣā, ties and kinship fall away to some extent. Because of this he stays as a witness, with no tie to anything. With good and bad, with fame and standing, with this world and the next, or with this or that of society, he must keep on as a witness, with no tie of any kind. We must not let the Manas enter any politics or any physical desires. This is what they called udāsīnatā. We must pay it no heed. Let ten people praise us or ten people revile us: taking no account of blame and praise, of contempt and honour, we must carry on our life in the thought of God. ‘Such a one is supremely dear to Me,’ said Kṛṣṇa. Taking upekṣā as the base, we must carry on our sādhanas in daily life.

It is most essential to recognise the truth that God is right within us, and to act on it

The fifth: we must see to it that we give no room to Ahaṅkāra and the sense of mine in any of their forms. There must be no longing that says, ‘The fruit of the action I do must come to me alone.’ There must be no room for the Ahaṅkāra that says, ‘I did it.’ We must give no room to the Ahaṅkāra that says ‘I’, nor to the sense of mine that says ‘mine’. ‘All is Yours alone; where is there anything called mine? Nothing is mine’: with such a feeling, offered up to God, we must keep on contemplating for the pleasure of God. Only such people can come to recognise Divinity, divine, glorious and ever new. All the sādhanas we do today are for the sake of attaining God.