Passage 17

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In plain words

That is, when you win God's feet, He is easily won. So those who take refuge at God's feet have no offences at all. No sins at all. No sorrows at all. That is, when you take refuge at God's feet with sacred Bhakti and keep thinking of God's feet, no one need have any desires of any kind. Yesterday Dr. Gadia said it. That when the feet were worshipped, those who were not married got married, and those who had no children had children. Is this what we want? These are not what we want. Every kind of worry falls away. All these are results that belong to the world. All this is physical results. These are all results of nature. It is not for this that we take refuge at the feet. It is for the bond with the Ātma that belongs to nivṛtti. When the greatest things of all are within our reach, why do we need all the little things? Why all these pebbles? We must grasp Mount Meru itself. That is what we must grasp. That itself is God's foot.

Once upon a time, it seems, Jaya and Vijaya went to Viṣṇu. They were simply His servants. Thinking, ‘We have some time on our hands,’ they began asking Him questions. ‘Swāmi! You have created this mountain of gold. What did You create it for?’ One who has no desire has no need even of a golden fort. For one who has desire, even if one creates a hundred of these golden forts, his desire will not be quenched. So for one who has these desires, whatever you give him, the desires do not lessen. He is very poor. A man with dual mind is half blind. How can one with so many desires find contentment? Who gains contentment? Who is a rich man? He Who has got much satisfaction. He who has much desires is the poorest man. So God came down as an Avatāra precisely to show the way to be without those desires.

God has no desires at all. His thought is of one thing alone. It is the thought of His devotees alone. The devotees must prosper. The devotees must enter the good path. Society must be brought to its right development. You must regard the welfare of this society as My welfare. You must not sink into the selfishness of ‘I and my family’. You must not live by these selfish, self-serving aims.