Passage 9

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Because they ate their food after offering it to God, the vitamins and proteins they needed came to them in it. If you deepen your faith in God you can achieve anything; you yourselves can become the embodiments of God. In truth, God is not separate from you. This is the essence of Vedānta. Only when you recognise this and act on it will divinity be yours.

(Swami, showing the golden liṅga He had created) Look: its size is large. It is not without an inner meaning. It weighs five tolas. In our body too there are five tolas of golden rasa. That is what they called Hiraṇyagarbha. You may know this: doctors sometimes give medicines mixed with gold. Gold is the chief power in man. It is because of gold that radiance shines in man. All the gold in our body is only this much. It is this that enters the eyes and gives them light. Because of it the ears are able to hear and the tongue is able to taste. This golden rasa moves through the whole body and keeps protecting it. Under our skin there is a very thin white skin. Only when it is cut does blood come; otherwise it does not. God provided this white skin to protect our blood. Whatever God does is only for our protection, only for our welfare. There are many wonderful things in God's creation.

Wondrous, and for the three worlds sanctifying, sickles to the creeper of worldly existence, true friends, and to the grove of the sages the springtime: such are the stories of Lord Viṣṇu.

So the Bhāgavatam taught. The Gopīs of those days crossed over by perfect faith alone. Because the magnetic power called faith filled them, they became worthy of Kṛṣṇa's grace.

“Though mothers-in-law rail at them, though husbands sharpen knives, the Gopīs never open their mouths, never grow angry, go nowhere, never take fright; like a picture in a book, Kṛṣṇa was within them...”