Passage 9

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In plain words

So Materialization, Vibration and Radiation, all three, are in us ourselves. This Radiation has been called ‘prajñānaṃ brahma’. Constant integrated awareness. This Brahman called Prajñāna dwells in us ourselves. All of you are embodiments of Brahman. Even Vyāsa, who divided the Veda, proclaimed the Veda to the world and raised it to the level of the Veda that is Brahman, could not let go of a father's love for his son; to Śuka, who was walking on ahead of him: ‘My son! Stop, stop, listen to me just once,’ he said. But he paid no heed at all. At last he thought it good to tell him the truth. The son stopped and went to his father. ‘My child! You are my son, and you will not listen to me! The trouble will be yours alone.’ Then Śuka spoke. ‘I am not a son. You are not a father. You are Brahman alone. I too am Brahman alone.’ ‘The whole world is filled with Brahman.’ Vyāsa's eyes were opened a little.

Lokāḥ samastāḥ sukhino bhavantu: the Ātma is one in all living beings

That is why, from time without beginning, teachings of many kinds have kept coming in this land of Bhārata. This is the supremely sacred land of Bhārata. It has not rested on misconceptions of many kinds, or on doubt. It has always been filled with sacred divinity. In this sacred land of Bhārata, the sayings that made it grow in spiritual wealth, that proclaimed this spiritual wealth to age after age, village after village, town after town, country after country, and gave happiness and Śānti, are these: ‘lokāḥ samastāḥ sukhino bhavantu’. So all the worlds belong to God. Forms and names may be separate, but wherever you go the divine power is one. Men too have separate forms and names. But the Ātma principle is one. This morning a sādhaka asked. ‘Svāmī! There are crores upon crores of devotees in the world, aren't there; how can one and the same Ātma be in them all? Surely they go by each one's lot!’ he said. I gave him an answer to that. When people make a decoration, they put up many thousands upon thousands of bulbs, all little bulbs, and make a fine decoration.