Passage 3

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In plain words

What is it that is offered to God? Which thing must we offer to God? This mansion called the body, in which God dwells, this home, this temple: we must offer it to God Himself. This very thing they called the pitṛ piṇḍa. The piṇḍa is the body. To offer it to God is itself Mukti. All the karmas we perform with this body we must do in a spirit of offering to God. This itself is the śāstra of Prema, the fifth puruṣārtha. To teach this śāstra, to give sacred Prema, to proclaim this Prema everywhere, to let us drink this nectar, God Himself, the formless, takes on a form and comes down from Goloka to the earth. That very day of His coming down we speak of as the birthday festival of God. What does God come for? He comes to give humanity this sweetness, this sweet savour, and through it to stir an intoxication, to make man intoxicated, to make him intoxicated for ever. The one who has tasted this sweetness simply becomes intoxicated. He attains the feeling of oneness. Nārada too said this very thing.

He becomes immortal, he becomes content, he becomes one who delights in the Ātma.

So he declared. The man who has drunk such sweetness sinks into the feeling of oneness, experiences that sweetness, drinks that nectar, and himself comes to attain Mādhava's own nature. The body is not merely for learning the principle of the five elements. ‘The body is indeed the first instrument of Dharma.’ Each must carry out their own duty. We must give up the fruit of karma. We must be far from enjoyment and near to sacrifice. God is the very embodiment of such sacrifice. God is made wholly of such sacrifice. The Ānanda of such sacrifice is itself God's Ānanda. Those who long to experience God's Ānanda must truly give up their attachment to the body, develop attachment to the Ātma, and strive to experience this Ānanda.