Passage 14

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But now many women too are holding jobs. There are so many men who have no job. So a job is not the mark of a man. Prema itself is the mark of a man, Dharma itself is the mark of a man, Satya is the mark of a man. That is why: Truth is GOD, Love is GOD, Live in LOVE. This is the very work we must do. That is why, today, we must recognise the truth that God's principle is the embodiment of the full. You cannot conclude that what is in one person is not in another. God alone is what is everywhere. He is not seen by our eyes, but when you open that very eye of Jñāna, He becomes visible to all. Where is the air? The eye cannot see it, the hand cannot grasp it. But without air we cannot live. All around us is air. Just because it is not seen, you cannot argue that there is no air. It is there. In just the same way God too is there, as the form of all.

The body's joy is passing; the Ānanda of the Ātma is everlasting

There is a small fan. They call it a hand fan. But we are in great heat. When we fan ourselves with the hand fan, we feel some coolness; coolness comes. But merely because we do not fan, is there no coolness? Or did this coolness come from that fan? It is what is there everywhere. If we do not wave that same fan towards ourselves but fan it towards others, the coolness goes to them. So your Buddhi itself is the fan. If you turn this Buddhi towards the Ātma and fan, the Ānanda of the Ātma arises. If you turn it from the body's side, joy comes to the body. Bodily joy is passing; it lasts a moment. There is no happiness at all that comes with this body. It is

A hovel of filth, a servant's basket wasting with disease, a tuber born to move about, a thornbush that cannot swim the sea of worldly life, a quiver of arrows: rise and look! Whenever we think of it, this body as lasting, do not trust it, O mind! Take refuge at the feet of Hari.