Passage 7

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The essence of all Dharmas is one alone!

The essence of all Dharmas is one alone! To become an offering to God is man's chief duty. One must come to the oneness in which oneself and God are one alone. What is the reason? What is in you is the very thing in Me, and what is in Me is the very thing in you. Bodies are different. They are merely like bubbles of water. They are merely like bulbs. The current in the bulbs is all one! The colours differ, the voltage differs. But the current is all one! In the same way, the divinity in all is one alone! ‘Ekohaṃ bahusyāṃ.’ The one God alone dwells in all. We must not step forward into strife on account of the differences of upādhi. There is no room at all for quarrels. In truth, attachment to the body is itself the root cause of quarrels. We must not believe the body to be permanent. The body is like a water bubble, mind is like a mad monkey. Don't follow the mind, don't follow the body, follow the conscious. That is the chief teaching of this book. We must keep following our conscious. In Bhāratīya culture this was called ‘Cit’. The three principles called Sat, Cit and Ānanda are in us ourselves. Today we must recognise that principle. We read books. We go running to the elders. But we do not inquire whether they are really great or not. There is no one else greater than you. But you are unable to know your own truth. The elephant does not recognise its own strength. That is why it submits to the mahout who shows it the goad. The whole world is in us ourselves. Everything is contained in you yourself. That is free will. Free will is not something separate. It belongs to the principle of the Ātma. That very divinity they called free will. But forgetting this truth, men believe that only the strength of wealth, the strength of arms and the strength of the intellect matter, and they lean on physical strengths.