Passage 4

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In plain words

You may ask, “Why can we not see the Caitanya that pervades everywhere?” Butter is present in every particle of milk. But do you get it merely by wanting it? No. Only when the milk is made into curd and churned do you get butter. In the same way, if you want the realisation of the Ātma, you must do the sādhana fit for it. To do no such sādhana and then think, ‘The Ātma does not show itself to us!’ is a great mistake.

He who looks for others' faults is a great sinner

The Caitanya in all human beings is itself the form of the Ātma. Two faults keep dogging man and do not let him recognise this truth.

Not letting him hold the thought of God in his heart, two faults keep dogging a man: he hides away his own lakhs of faults, and brings out the speck of another's fault.

He covers up the lakhs of faults in himself, and keeps taking a fault in others no bigger than an atom to be a big one. When he removes these two bad qualities from his heart, he himself can truly become the embodiment of God. To look for the faults of others is a great mistake. Each must look for his own faults. Even if his fault is small, he must take it to be big and set it right at once. Even if the faults of others look big, he should pay them no heed. For the sādhaka the spirit of sacrifice is most necessary. Sacrifice itself is yoga. Today, wherever you look in the world, the sinners who look for others' faults grow in number day by day; but those who recognise the faults in themselves and set them right are nowhere to be seen. That is why man falls prey to unrest and sorrow. The man who wants to drive away sorrow and enjoy Śānti must first of all root out the faults in himself. He who looks for the faults of others is a great sinner.