Passage 10

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In plain words

There is no diamond greater than Prema

Embodiments of Prema! The chief mark of man is Prema itself. The diamond of great value is Prema itself. Such a diamond is found nowhere. That which loves for someone's sake is not Prema. Only the Prema that loves for God's sake is the true diamond. Let anyone think whatever they like and feel in whatever way they like. When heads differ, thoughts are bound to differ. There is no fault in us. God is selfless. How can there be selfishness near God, who is so selfless? Whatever He does is selfless. Whatever He does is sacred. Whatever He does is divinity itself. "Am I living in delusion, in sacrifice, in yoga, or in disease? Am I in union or in separation?" You must put all these questions to yourself. If you put them in that way, the marks for all of them are zeros. We cannot earn a single mark in even one of them. Taking the body alone as the main support, through it we enter into all actions. Where are we to find the answer to this? This body is a tool. This is my body, my mind, my hand, my leg, my head. Who are you: find that out. You keep saying, "All are mine, mine." All these are tools. You are the master, be a master mind. That is the work you must do. Instead of doing that, you say "my mind, my Buddhi", sink in this alone, and in the end you forget your very own nature.

Every man must first of all try to recognise for himself the nature of his body. What a sacred body God has given! Take as a small example the eye. The eye sees space lakhs of miles away. How much power there is in the eye! In this small eye alone there is so much power. Through the whole body, cell after cell has this same power. Atom after atom has this same power. What dwells in every atom and in every cell is God Himself. We are wasting all these many cells. If we take the eye alone as an example, this much becomes clear. We need not take many examples. Man's ears hear in silence whatever is happening anywhere.