Passage 1

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In plain words

By what power of Prema does this wheel of the earth turn on and on without an axle? By what power of Prema do all the stars stand fixed in the sky without falling to the ground? By what power of Prema, not falling upon this earth, did the lord of the ocean draw in his feet? By what power of Prema, for the fourteen worlds, did the god of the wind wave his fans? That great power of Prema is the power of the Ātma, a wondrous, endless power without a second; it fills the whole vessel of the cosmos; this whole great creation is full of Prema.

If we wish to behold the Reality that is Satya in life, we need do no sādhanas of any kind. We give God many names: Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Maheśvara. But these forms are seen by no one. Only the one power, taking the form of Prema, moves everywhere. Through Prema alone humanness becomes one with Divinity. Divinity is in humanness itself. Only when he forms a close bond of kinship with Divinity does man come to hold every power; he becomes capable of all things. There is no power greater than humanness. Man need not fetch divine power from somewhere else. Divine power is present in its fullness in man himself. Without that power, this human power cannot work on its own. The Vedas teach, ‘Ahaṃ brahmāsmi’, ‘Tat tvaṃ asi’, ‘Prajñānaṃ brahma’, ‘Ayam ātmā brahma’.