Passage 9

dēvuḍanaga vēru dēśamanduna lēḍu

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That itself is the path to Jīvanmukti. We must journey on the path of Sat. We must journey on the path of Satya. We must live in perfect Jñāna. Only then will the Paramātma, the embodiment of perfection, become manifest. God is not off somewhere else.

God's Address

God is not in some separate land; God dwells in one's very own body.

God is not in some country or other. God is in every body. Why should we go searching for that principle of the Paramātma? Why search in the outside world for the Supreme Principle that is right within oneself? God is full of Ānanda. He Himself is

eternal Ānanda, the giver of supreme happiness, Jñāna itself in form, beyond the pairs of opposites, like the sky, the aim of ‘Tat tvam asi’ and the rest, one, eternal, spotless, unmoving, the witness of every mind, beyond feeling, free of the three guṇas.

That Ānanda is in every human being. But then, how does it become manifest to us? There is a single light. Over that light we have turned a pot upside down. That pot has ten holes. Over these ten holes we have laid a thick Turkish towel. The light inside is burning, but because the towel is laid over it, it cannot be seen. The body itself is a pot. The light inside is itself the Ātma. This body has ten holes. Over it they have spread a rug called delusion. First of all, take off the rug of tamoguṇa. Then it will appear as ten lights. Next we must break the pot that is the body. Then a single light will be seen. ‘Ekaṃsat viprā bahudhā vadanti.’ That which is, is only One. Though that which is is One, through the senses it appears in many forms. We must see the divine Light, the one Light, manifest in everything. We must behold the unity within the many. However many bulbs there may be, however many kinds of voltage, the current is one and the same. Each body is like a bulb.