Passage 3

Tap any word for its meaning.

In plain words

Divinity is in man himself

Holding the mighty five elements within himself, man behaves like one without strength. The Veda said: “Aṇor aṇīyān mahato mahīyān”. Paramātma is the atom within the atom, the vast within the vast. Who can recognise such a principle of Paramātma? Who can see the divinity that is within oneself? Anyone can see it. But you must turn your vision inward. Yet man's vision is turned outward. “Though seeing, the deluded one does not see.” You must recognise the truth that all you see, hear and experience is the very form of God.

Human birth is very hard to come by. “Daivaṃ mānuṣa rūpeṇa”: God dwells in human form. For beholding divinity there is no form greater than this. Everything is contained in man himself. So man must himself recognise his own nature. All the Vedas and Śāstras make divinity visible in the human shape itself. Yet divinity is not limited merely to the human form. If a buffalo wished to worship God, it would worship Him imagining that God is a buffalo of enormous shape. In the same way, man too can behold divinity only in human shape. For God there is no distinction of ‘this kind’ or ‘that kind’. No one has the authority to decree that God may do this and must not do that. God is everything; in every action, every nerve, every atom, God alone is present. Everything is in His power. He can do anything; whatever He does is only for the good of others, not for His own self-interest. Whatever is resolved with a selfless feeling is God's own resolve. No one can find fault with such resolves.

Self-confidence is the foundation of the mansion of life

No one can describe divinity as ‘like this’ or ‘like that’. What is everywhere is divinity alone. Divinity is in the five elements. So you must believe the five elements themselves to be forms of Paramātma.