Passage 6

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In plain words

We must go on living our life with the feeling of the Ātma. Every work done with attachment to the Ātma takes a positive shape and nothing else. Because over many births one has taken these physical desires into oneself, only physical feelings arise in one. But day by day the sādhaka must cool this physical side to some degree, and we must keep the non-physical principle of the Ātma as our goal. How can we gain this Sat Cit Ānanda? A bee brings an insect, makes a little nest, puts it inside and keeps up its humming, and so the insect too turns into a bee. In the same way, without doubting whether Sat Cit Ānanda is in us or not, if like the bee you constantly keep remembering “I am the embodiment of Sat Cit Ānanda”, you will certainly take shape as that embodiment of Saccidānanda. You must constantly keep uttering “I am the embodiment of Saccidānanda”. You must believe that that alone is you. This we are saying constantly, through the breath going in and going out. So..ham. So...ham. So: that God is I. We must constantly utter the principle “That am I.” What does it mean? I myself am that embodiment of Saccidānanda. Then this physical attachment to the body cools down little by little. Little by little it fades away. That eternally true form of Saccidānanda alone emerges. But man today, unable to recognise that eternally true principle of Saccidānanda, falls prey only to things that are untrue, unstable and groundless. Though at first it may seem hard to you, you must go on constantly remembering the truth “I am God, I am God” without thinking it hard. At the start of every task, difficulties do arise. The pleasure is an interval between two pains. Only between two pains does a pleasure come to us. So we must not be crushed by pains at all. You are truly the embodiment of Ānanda. In man there are five kośas. The annamaya kośa is the body. It is very gross.