Passage 3

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In plain words

Without the original there is no reflection. If there is a reflection, it means that its original stands behind it as its foundation. The original and the reflection, the two, rest on each other; they are bound in a relation where neither can be without the other. On this very ground God has declared, ‘Mamaivāṃśo jīvaloke, jīvabhūtassanātanaḥ’: all are a part of Me. So, in this world we see, every shape, every form, every object is the divine form of God! Unable to recognise this truth, we say one is my opponent, one is my friend, another is my enemy, and so we waste our time in anger and resentment. Such oneness comes to us only through the feeling of the Paramātma; it does not come to us through the feeling that the body is the self.

The Paramātma, the embodiment of Prema, can be seen only through Prema

Man today, through the feeling that the body is the self, is wasting his time, his body and his karma moment by moment. He forgets the feeling of the Paramātma. That is why he falls prey to sorrow, to hardship, to loss and to grief. If we are to recognise divinity, if we are to experience the divine, we cannot come to know it through worldly business. God is the embodiment of Prema. Prema is He Himself. He Himself is Prema. So, to reflect His Prema in all, He has granted a pure, unwavering heart. Just as God shares out His Prema, so every man must share out his Prema to all. Only then is the feeling of the one Ātma understood. If we are to know the Paramātma, we cannot buy Him with money. Nor can we attain Him by cleverness and cunning, or by strength, or by positions, or by learning. Your intelligence, your strength and abilities, belong only to Prakṛti; they have nothing whatever to do with the supreme principle. If you want to see the shining moon, you cannot take some torchlight or some petromax light or a hurricane lantern and see it by that.