Passage 3

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In plain words

How can man understand such an ever-new divinity? I spoke a little while ago of the fragrance in the flower and of the bird in the egg. Man cannot rightly understand even these. Where did the sweetness in the sugarcane come from? This very sweetness is the nature of divinity. The heat in chilli, the sourness in lemon, the bitterness in neem: where did all these begin? All these are nothing but signs of divinity. So that the story of such divinity might be known within natural qualities, God has been showing creation in this form. What beauty in the mountains! What beauty in the flowing river? How much beauty there is in the surging sea! All these are nothing but God's many and wondrous beauties. It is not possible to put God's beauty into words as this much or that much. It is not possible to recognise God's power and might. With a petty understanding you cannot recognise even ideas that are in the form of an atom. That being so, how can you understand the infinite form?

Know yourself!

Embodiments of Prema! God is beyond the reach of speech and mind. He is the One whom neither speech nor mind can reach: ‘Yato vāco nivartante aprāpya manasā saha’. Only as far as you understand do you try to describe the principle of God as this or that. Where you do not understand, you keep silent. There language itself does not come; the grammar is not known; the engineering makes no sense at all. God's plans, God's engineerings, God's natural ways make sense to God alone and to no one else. So do not try to recognise the qualities of God. Master your qualities by effort. Try to recognise your true nature. Even little things you do not understand. How then will you understand the infinite principle? Do not try to know God.