Passage 1

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In plain words

From rising out of sleep until you go to sleep again, for the belly spending without limit or reckoning, your life and your learning poured away, the lotus-petal-eyed One forgotten, what great happiness have you gained? Think it over with a willing heart, O man!

Embodiments of Prema!

Longing to attain Ānanda, man goes searching for it in this world in many ways. But is this Ānanda in objects? Or is it in places? Or is it in persons? People cannot make out where it is. Ānanda is not to be found in objects, or in a place, or in persons. When Ānanda is everywhere, how can you search for it, asking where it is? God lies merged in all beings, in all living creatures, in all places, in all things. Inquiring well into this in the Bhagavad Gītā, Einstein gave it a new name. ‘Psychotronic,’ he called it. That is, what are we to call God, who is everywhere? So He appears in a kind of unknown form. God, the very form of an unknown power, moves in all persons, in all places, in all things, unseen. But man, who has taken on a human form, imagines God too as a form and goes searching for Him everywhere. Ānanda is there, but Ānanda has no form. Prema is there, but Prema has no form. Then how do we believe in a Prema that has no form? How do we experience an Ānanda that has no shape? Prema has no form, but the person who offers Prema has a form.