Passage 5

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Today people have forgotten such pure Satya. They live with untruth. That is why they suffer hunger. Is Satya the cause of sufferings like these? No, no. Your own saṅkalpas are the root cause. When your saṅkalpas take on the form of Satya, everything stays in the form of Satya. The devotees of those days, constantly chanting the Name of God, made their time fruitful in every task. “Always, at all times, everywhere, the thought of Hari.” Because Sakkubāī chanted the Name as she made the dung cakes, the Name entered even the dung cakes. So every man must keep chanting the Name of God in every action he does. Nothing other than God appears in this world. Everything is the form of God. Whatever we see, whatever we speak, whatever we hear, all is the form of God. But it is not visible to us. It does not come within our grasp. We must not think it is not there merely because it does not come within our grasp, merely because it is not seen. A small example. Among the five elements, air is one element. It is all around us. But do we see it? It is not seen. If we try to catch hold of it, does it come into our grasp? It does not. Because it cannot be grasped and cannot be seen, can we say there is no air? How do you live without air? When air alone, one of the five elements, takes on such a form of power, you can well imagine what the principle of the five elements must be like. The whole world is the form of the five elements. Prapañca. Pra means blossoming. Pañca, the five elements. Prapañca does not mean these scenes we see. Prapañca is the form of the five elements itself. In this world made of these five elements, for you to argue that none of these exist is meaningless. So it is not at all possible to say there is no God. No one, however foolish, can say there is no God. How can one say He does not exist? Are the five elements not the very form of the Paramātma? Can you say these do not exist? You cannot. So God does not mean holding to one form only. He is present in many forms. ‘Sahasra śīrṣā puruṣaḥ sahasrākṣa sahasrapāt’ means that all forms are God’s forms.