Passage 4

satyambunanduṇḍi sarvambu sṛṣṭiñce

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It stays true and eternal for ever. You must try to recognise that principle of the Ātma. What is everywhere is the principle of the Ātma! How can it be divided! So do not try to divide it. It is very easy to recognise the truth that all is one. ‘Ekaṃ sat viprāḥ bahudhā vadanti.’ That Satya is the very form of God.

Out of Satya all was created; in Satya all creation is dissolved; look where you will, what place is there without the glory of Satya? This is pure sattva: see it!

The whole world was born from Satya. It is seen in Satya itself. In the end it merges in Satya itself. The whole world rests on Satya alone. You need not search for such Satya somewhere far off; wherever you look, it is there to be seen. But you do not try to see it. If you try and look, wherever you look you will see Satya alone. The Veda teaches, ‘Satyaṃ brūyāt priyaṃ brūyāt na brūyāt satyam apriyaṃ...’ You must speak only the truth. It must be pleasing, soft and sweet, not harsh or hurtful. A harsh truth is no truth. In the world it is said that God is wherever you look. True, He is wherever you look. But He shines in all His radiance in the truth that is soft and sweet.

Lust and anger are man's worst enemies

Embodiments of Prema! Recognise that the principle of the Ātma in all is one. Cut away differences. Experience the light of Prema. Man today, having lost the fear of sin, is taking wrong paths of many kinds.

Because of a boorishness that has no fear of sin, and because there is no love for God, humanness has sunk low in human beings; this itself is the upheaval of the peace of the world.