Passage 4

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In the same way, we too are like clay. Divinity is turning this clay into a pot. We must put that pot into the fire called Jñāna and bake it. What is this Jñāna? “The vision of non-duality is Jñāna.” Only when one gains the Jñāna of oneness, “The jīva and God are one”, only when this is fully baked, does what is put into it stay. Every single thing in creation gains all kinds of powers through saṃskāra. Just as pots harden through the saṃskāra of fire, so through the saṃskāra called God's grace the jīva turns into God. Through going on with saṃskāra, the power of a thing grows too. Its value grows too. I keep calling all of you “Bangārū!” Bangāru means gold. God is Hiraṇyagarbha. God, who is Hiraṇyagarbha, dwells in all of you. For that very reason you have earned the name ‘Bangāru’. But merely earning it is not enough. We must try to turn that gold into jewels to adorn ourselves with. For that we must put the gold in the fire and melt it, beat it with a hammer and draw it out, cut it, and shape it into jewels. In the same way, you too must be refined.

God's will is an adamantine will. Hiraṇyagarbha is God. Where is that Hiraṇyagarbha? He is right within us. That is the very thing we must know. In the food we eat there is a great deal of the power of acid. There is much acid in vegetables. The leafy greens we eat have iron in them. Not only that: we make a sour curry with tamarind juice. Acid comes into that too. Besides, there is acid in lemon juice. In every substance we eat there is a metal. All these go on strengthening the energy in the body. The divine power in us comes from food itself. This Food produces our Head. This Head turns into God. So when we use food in the proper way, we come to understand our own true form. In our body, they call it Acid.