Passage 2

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In plain words

Divine seeing, divine speech and divine actions are all contained in divinity alone. So to stay joined with divinity is true satsaṅga. That which does not change in past, present or future is ‘Sat’. We must experience its company. How? We must not turn our sight away. We must not change our word. There must be no change in our actions. But for the youth of today, putting these into practice is very hard. They do not have one sight; they have many sights. They cannot live by one word; they add on words of many kinds; they perform actions of many kinds. ‘The great are one in mind, one in word, one in deed’, it is said. We must perform actions joined in oneness. The oneness of sight, words and actions is satsaṅga. This is what is called the purity of the three guṇas. To live in the principle of the one Ātma is true satsaṅga. One must not think that the Ātma is many. The Ātma is one. It is that which draws this whole world to itself. What is Prakṛti? Prakṛti is that which is made of the objects that delude man. In it every object is unsteady; not one steady object is to be seen. All these delude man; they do not carry him across. These passing objects give only a passing result; they cannot give a result that is eternal and true. All the things in Prakṛti are changing. So we must recognise the principle that does not change.

All that the eye sees is the form of God!

You may ask, ‘How am I to see God?’ Foolish one! Wherever you look, what is there is God. But because you look with the outer eye, God is not visible to you. ‘Paśyatīti paśuḥ’, it is said. One who has only the outer eye is like a beast. Develop the inner eye. Then you will be able to recognise that all you see and experience is divinity. You need not search for God. You are God, and God is you. It is with this in view that the Veda has gone on teaching the truth, ‘I am God’.