Passage 4

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In plain words

All religions came into being to bring man to divinity, not to breed turmoil. There is no hatred whatsoever in religions; it is only in men's minds that hatred lies. “If the minds are good, which religion is bad?” So you must give no room to differences of jāti and religion. You must recognise what jāti means. Jāti has to do with form. For example, all flowers belong to one jāti. All trees belong to one jāti. All cloths belong to one jāti. In the same way, all human beings belong to one jāti. If, reasoning that the mango tree and the neem tree both belong to the jāti of trees, you plant a neem seed and hope for mango fruit, will you get it? You will not. The jāti of trees is one, but its fruits are many. Within the jāti of trees, the fruits come in 450 different tastes.

In the same way, mankind too is one, but the feelings of men, their resolves and doubts, and their conduct all differ. All these are nothing but the workings of the antaḥkaraṇa! To wish to destroy a jāti is madness. You may destroy an individual, but no one can destroy a jāti. Mankind is for ever true and eternal. To give room to strife and turmoil without understanding the oneness of such a sacred jāti is nothing but ignorance. Today the root cause of the turmoil in the world is nothing other than the tendencies of the mind and the conduct of man. The chief principle in the ancient culture of Bhārata is oneness itself. To recognise that oneness, you must develop Prema.