Passage 10

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In plain words

In former times, at the ceremony of taking up the letters, they would teach the five-syllabled Name, ‘Oṃ Namaśśivāya’. Or they would have them remember the eight-syllabled Name, ‘Oṃ Namo Nārāyaṇāya’. What is the learning of letters now? There is no feeling for the letters at all. ‘Baa baa black sheep’. Is this what we tell our children? Ding Dong bell ... Such things are what we tell children. This is not what should be planted in children's hearts. ‘Rāma, Kṛṣṇa, Govinda, Nārāyaṇa’. We must teach such a holy Name. Jayadeva used to say: ‘Jihve rasajñe madhura priye tvaṃ satyaṃ hitaṃ tvāṃ paramaṃ vadāmi āvarṇayethāṃ madhurākṣarāṇi govinda dāmodara mādhaveti’. ‘O sacred tongue! O tongue that knows taste! What you must remember is not what is worldly. You must proclaim the sweet syllables’. What are those sweet words? What is the gaze of the eyes of today's devotees like? It must be like the gaze of the moon. Words must be like butter. The heart must be like honey. This is what the man of today needs most urgently. Look at the words: very harsh words. No, no. They must be words like butter. They must be sweet and gentle. Then the sight with which we look through the eyes. We look with a distorted sight. We look with eyes for amusements. We do not look with a sight rooted in Vijñāna.

Every man must do good, see good, think good and live in goodness

Do you know what the eyes were given for! To look at everything? No, no: to see the Dweller of Kailāsa, friend!

Sītālakṣmī sang; Swami's song, in part.

It is only said that He was at Shirdi before and is at Parthi now; He moves in the very eyes of the devotees who hold Him in thought, brother! Open your eyes and see this God Sai, brother; consider it, and He is everywhere, brother!