Passage 11

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In plain words

When You Look at Whoever You See with the Feeling That They Are God, All Becomes Full of God

Students! Take a small example. You have some gold with you. That gold is very pure indeed. Pure gold is very precious. After some time you added some copper to it. After some more time you added silver too. After some more time you added brass. Because you went on adding many metals in this way, the very form of the gold changed. Then it could not even be recognised. You cannot say what it is, whether it is gold, copper, brass or silver. Because many metals came into it, the gold that was its own svarūpa has spoiled that form. That is just what our worldly relationships are. When he is born, man is pure. Samyak dṛṣṭi is in him. Apart from the mother he recognises no one. As he grows up step by step, the father, then brothers and sisters, come into his life. Friends come into his life. Because he joins with all of them in this way, man's right form itself has changed. His Satya-svarūpa itself has changed. It is not possible to say whether he is a man, God or a demon. That is why he has to take so many births. Joy, sorrow, sin and merit, all take shape. What makes the man of today fall prey to so many sorrows, so many griefs, so many hardships? Nothing else. Only his own changes. Gold always remains gold. But because of the metals added to it, the form of the gold changed. When you are born a man, if you want to live as a man, you must not add another bond. Through these ties of relationship and kinship, death again, birth again, sorrow again, joy again: all of it is of our own making. You must keep a sacred form sacred. We must change our vision into the vision of God. We must not look with the vision of the world. We must not take it as a bond of the world. First of all, samyak dṛṣṭi, samyak dṛṣṭi. Whatever you see, think of it as seeing God.