Passage 14

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Where must I look for You? Thinking so, going on and on, he found no refuge anywhere. He was going to throw himself into the Gaṅgā. When he went to fall in where the Gaṅgā was deep, something touched his foot there. He took it out to see what it was. When he took it out, it was none other than an image of Rāma. You see! As he went on thinking of Rāma, wondering where to search, Rāma was found at his very foot. Then he took Rāma up. How great You are, Rāma: You are right with me, in my home, at my side. Unable to recognise that truth, I am entering into Ajñāna.

Come, come, up to our house. O Raghuvīra, tender one, I bow to You. Come, come! O God! You have been found here. Come. Come to my house. Only to that supreme devotee who has felt such oneness, who has believed in a close bond with Divinity and has gone on experiencing the principle of Prema, is this principle known. But to those who are not supreme devotees it is not known at all. If a man who has malaria fever takes sugar and puts it on his tongue, it tastes bitter. He thinks the sugar is bitter; but is the poison not in his own tongue? This poison is on the tongue, not in the sugar. Get rid of the poison in you. The sugar will be sweet, as it always is. God is right within us. He is right within me. In you, with you, around you, behind you. If you go on thinking this way, you will surely become God yourself. Do not think God is one and I am another. I have told many people. 'Swami, thanks,' they said. When saris were given, some even among our own messengers said, 'Thanks, Swami.' I told them, I am not third person. Thanks are said to a third person. Your mother serves you this much food. Does anyone say, 'Mother, thanks to you'? When you go to someone's house outside and they give you food, you say thanks. I am not outsider. So let no one say thanks. Fight for your right. In that way, think of Swami as your very own: 'My Swami, my Swami.' Only then will every kind of right be yours. But instead of fighting for such rights, you are worrying through your delusions, your whims, your evil minds, your evil thoughts, your evil feelings. Whatever I ask for, it is not for Me.