In plain words
‘Ekaṃ sat’. You must keep that as your aim. ‘I am within the Light. The Light is within me’: you must never forget this truth. In the very end you must achieve the oneness of ‘I am I’. If we want to recognise the principle of the Ātma, we must give no room to manyness. What we see, hear and experience in this world is not Satya. All this is only ‘reaction, resound, reflection’! ‘Reality’ is in us ourselves. Here I see so many children. Where are they all from? They are reflections in me! Otherwise, how would they all be seen by me? In the same way, every person and every thing is reflected in you.
The principle of the Ātma has no beginning and no end
Human life is made up of union and separation. But one must hold an even mind towards both. For me there is no union and no separation. Only if there is union can there be separation! All these are only our delusions, nothing else. Those who truly wish to recognise the Ātma must keep in view ‘Ekaṃ sat’, and that alone. What exists is one alone; there is no second at all. It is not something that changes. At all times and in all states it remains one. If you want to recognise such oneness, you must enter satsaṅga. That is, what we see, what we hear and what we do: there must be oneness of these three. This is true satsaṅga. The principle of the Ātma has no beginning and no end. That is why it has been likened to the ‘liṅga’. For a liṅga has neither head nor feet. When doing pūjā you can set it any way at all. The Ātma has only a name, not a form. Ānanda is its very form. It is that which arises from within us! It never changes. But if you grasp after outer joy, even the Ānanda that is within you will waste away.
You must join God and experience Ānanda
Embodiments of Prema! Today is the supremely sacred festival of Śivarātri. ‘Śivam’ means that which is sacred.