In plain words
In our home there is a little child. He goes to school. He comes up. “Father! You have so many cars. You get such a big salary. Get a bush coat stitched for me,” he said. There, that kind of description is of no use. With a kind of right: whether you have a car or not, how much salary you get, I don't know; get me a bush coat stitched. That is the devotee's right over God. O God, embodiment of grace! Embodiment of the unbroken whole! Embodiment of the vast! Embodiment of compassion! Embodiment of Prema! There is no need to describe Him this way. My wish, though, must be fulfilled. There is no getting out of this. We must be ready to ask God with that much right. If we do not ask God, whom else are we to ask? The devotee has every right over God. That is why I said earlier: Our heart is born of the Ātma. The heart is the son of the Ātma. The son of this heart is the mind. The mind is the Ātma's grand son. From this mind comes speech, the great grandson. Speech is the great-grandson. The mind is the grandson. The heart is the son. Whose? The Ātma's alone. This son, grandson and great-grandson are the Ātma's own kin. They are of one and the same family. So our speech must not be separate from God. Our mind must not be separate from God. What gives each of us a share is that property itself. The very property of the great grand father comes to the great grand son. To the grand son too that same property comes. To the son comes the father's property. That is why in the Bible He said, ‘I am the messenger of God.’ Since that belongs to the bond of the body, He put it as messenger. When He looked at it through the mind, He said, ‘I am the son of God.’ Then, from the feeling of the Ātma, He said, ‘I and My Father are one.’ Within our attachment to the body we may set up a difference: the jīva and God. Through attachment of the mind: I am indeed a portion of You. Through the bond of the Ātma: I am You, You are I. So we must strive for oneness. Merely through attachment to the body we are pushing divinity far away. This is not the right path for us. However many sādhanas we do, if we do not recognise the right bond itself, we shall never become one.