Passage 3

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In plain words

Whatever powers are in God, those very powers are dancing the tāṇḍava in every person. But man does not turn his gaze to those powers. Keeping in view only the body and its nature, “I am the body,” he wrongly believes. He is not the body. If he himself were the body, why does he say, “This is my body”? It is because he is separate from the body that he says, “my body.” It is only by mistaking the body, which is materialisation, for himself that man loses the divine light within him. Next, vibration has to do with breathing in and breathing out. Now and then he says, “My breath is not coming right.” Since he says “my breath”, he is not the breath. He is separate from vibration. The third is radiation. That is divine power. He is not one thing and divine power another. This divine power is the magnetic power within him. It is this divine power that draws everyone in temples. The power of attraction is the very nature of a shrine. It shines in every human being.

For Me it is no pain; for you it is a teaching

Gold, iron and many other metals are contained in man himself. “Raso vai saḥ”: this body is filled with rasa. What is the liṅgodbhava? God is Hiraṇyagarbha. His belly is all of gold. All this gold, whose form is rasa, circles round and round, gathers in one place and takes the shape of a liṅga. A liṅga is a symbol, a sign. Eyes, face, mouth... such limbs it does not have. One cannot say which is the head and which are the feet. “Līyate gamyate iti liṅgaḥ” (that in which all things merge, that towards which all things go, is the liṅga): it forms within and sets out towards the outside. For it to melt and take shape as a liṅga, a great deal of heat is needed. That is the pain felt at the time of the liṅgodbhava. It must take on the shape of a liṅga and emerge. You think that when it comes out Swami is in pain.