Passage 10

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In plain words

In the market they sell figures of animals and birds made of sugar. Buy a figure, break off its tail and put it in your mouth: it is sweet; break off an ear and put it in your mouth: that too is just as sweet. The ears, the tail and the trunk are separate, but what is in all of them is the one sugar! In just the same way, in this world names and forms are separate, but what is in all of them is the one divinity. That is the very form of Satya. If you forget this truth and go on searching for God here and there, you will only have wasted your time. Time is a form of God. Karma too is a form of God. That is why, before we do karma, we must first of all bow to it. We cannot escape karma. Like our ‘shadow’, karma keeps following us. But when we fully recognise and experience divinity, the ‘shadow’ goes; the ‘reality’ remains. So, first of all, we must make our faith grow. Only then can we recognise divinity.

Those who keep their minds somewhere else, imagine that God is somewhere else, and trail after this one and that one, are mad. You need not wander anywhere. Turn your gaze inward, and God will surely be seen in you yourselves. The jīva itself is God. The jīva has the form of the vyaṣṭi; God has the form of the samaṣṭi. When many trees come together, it becomes a forest. When many houses come together, it becomes a village. When many people come together, it becomes a society. In this way, though names and forms change, the root principle does not change. Humanness is not everywhere, but divinity is everywhere. Within humanness too there is divinity. If you ask, “Where is God, sir?”, some say, “He is in us.” That is not the right answer. Where is this handkerchief? It is in my hand. So my hand is the bigger, the handkerchief the smaller. In the same way, if you say God is in you, you become bigger than God, don't you! So you should not say, “God is in me.” You yourself are in God. All are in God.