Passage 18

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It is of no use if we worship only on this one day, calling it Śrī Rāma Navamī, and eat pāyasam and sweet rice on this one day alone. Every moment is an Avatāra of God. Because man is being born in this world every moment. Every human being born is the very form of an Avatāra.

With hands and feet everywhere, with eyes and heads and faces everywhere, with ears everywhere in the world, That stands enveloping all.

So everyone born is the very form of God. Because ‘Īśvaraḥ sarvabhūtānām’: God alone is the one who dwells in all. So we must go on contemplating God every moment. Only when we remember in this way will this divinity become manifest to us. Our delusion will turn into freedom from delusion. Divinity is attained. You will merge in this grace. So man has come only to merge in the grace from which he came, not to enjoy all the things of the world. So each one must go on practising his own karma and dharma. ‘Dharma protects those who protect it; Dharma destroyed destroys’: so we must protect Dharma. What kind of dharmas? We must protect human dharmas. You are not a mānava; you are Mādhava Himself. So develop your humanness. Develop what is called divinity.

Embodiments of Prema! However many ways one may describe this principle of Rāma, it is not possible. For generation after generation this name of Rāma has been coming down. So for many lakhs of years this humanness has been coming down. Though this humanness came into being many lakhs of years ago, even today they cannot know what humanness is. They only take on human form; they make no effort to recognise humanness. When one does not recognise this humanness, what is the use of being born as a human being? So what is humanness? That itself is the principle of Prema. We must share this Prema with others. We must live always with Prema alone.