Passage 7

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In plain words

He who has virtues and good conduct is God's very form. Such a Śrī Rāmacandra was born in human form. He went through many hardships. But in no circumstance did he leave the path of Satya. All that he said was Satya itself; all that he did was Dharma itself. So follow him, my dear!” he taught. Many people wrongly imagine that Nārada is fond of quarrels. Nārada is not fond of quarrels, nor is he hard-hearted. He is one who makes the light of Jñāna shine; he is the one who gave the world the Gāyatrī mantra that Viśvāmitra had won.

Oṃ bhūr bhuvas suvaḥ tat savitur vareṇyaṃ bhargo devasya dhīmahi dhiyo yo naḥ pracodayāt

‘Bhūḥ’ has to do with the body. The body is material; it is made up of ‘materials’ such as lime, lead, iron and the like. So the body is ‘materialisation’. ‘Bhuvaḥ’ has to do with ‘vibration’. Without ‘vibration’ the body cannot do any work. What supplies the ‘vibration’ is the mind. And ‘suvaḥ’ means the Ātma principle. That itself is ‘radiation’. “Bhūr bhuvas suvaḥ”: man is one made up of the principle of these three.

Divine vibration fills every place

Every day, morning and evening, bhajan goes on here. If someone asks where the bhajan goes on, you will say it goes on in the hall. But the ‘vibration’ of that bhajan is on this table too. If you listen well, with your ears to it, you can recognise that this table too is singing bhajan. So bhajan is not confined to this hall alone. Its ‘vibration’ spreads everywhere. ‘Divine vibration’ fills every place. In these pillars, in these walls, in this mike, all is filled with nothing but ‘divine vibration’. If you listen with a steady feeling and with a pure, selfless heart, you will surely hear it. The ancient maharṣis were those very ones who heard in this way. All of them received through ‘vibration’ itself the Veda that Sārasvata taught. Wherever you listen with a pure heart, you will hear the ‘divine vibration’ that pervades every place.