Passage 8

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In plain words

There is no padārtha in the world without divinity

Embodiments of Prema! Believe the food you eat to be parārtha, not padārtha. For that, the padārtha must be pure. We must take care that food does not go bad. Once it has gone bad, it turns into poison. In every padārtha there is divinity. There is no padārtha in the world without divinity. We cannot see a place without divinity. Divinity itself is in everything. We must seek the true ways fit for recognising such divinity. By refining every padārtha, that very thing turns into parārtha. So, if worldly things are all to turn into divine things, how full of saṃskāra and how pure must they be? Only then does their worth go up. Purity grows in us too.

Students! You are studying everything. You study indeed, but you are not putting what you have studied into practice. What are you studying? That “Oxygen, Hydrogen: the two combined become water.” You go into the laboratory and examine this. What fruit has come to us from examining it in this laboratory? We must experience it in a practical way. How much hardship are we suffering today for want of water? If so, put the two together, Oxygen and Hydrogen, and make water: let us see! That cannot be done.

Today they waste water. In Bhārata there are so many rivers. There are many rivers that never run dry. A great deal of water flows in these rivers. But in the end it runs into the sea, of no use to anyone. On the other side, one state and another state quarrel, saying, “We have no water.” Why not put to good use the water that comes? Only the weak, who cannot put it to good use, quarrel that there is no water. In Bhārata a great deal of the water in the rivers flows into the sea and goes to waste. Save all of it. Put it to good use. Bhārata is a land of great welfare, an auspicious land. It is a country famed as “Annapūrṇā”. Such a land, and today we suffer for want of food itself: what is the reason for this? We misuse every thing.