Passage 2

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But, unable to understand these great sayings rightly, man is sinking in Māyā. In truth, every power is contained in humanness itself. Yet man hopes to gain some powers or other and win release from his sorrows.

Being born is one worry, living on the earth is a worry, family life is one worry, death is a worry, the whole of childhood is a worry, old age is one worry, living is one worry, ruin is a worry, all one's deeds are a worry, hardships are one worry, joy is one worry: a strange worry! The Prema of the Lord of all, which drives away all worries: take it, people, now at last, to your heart's content!

Truly, what is there that is free of worry? In life, everything is bound up with worries alone. But these are not worries; we must recognise that they are steps for leaving humanness behind and reaching Divinity.

The dream is fashioned by Māyā

Embodiments of Prema! You think, ‘Swami came in a dream last night.’ But I go to no one in a dream. When your own resolve is there in full, it appears to you as a form. Some keep saying that they beheld God in a dream and saw the Divine in dhyāna. All these are each one's own delusions, not real powers. Where is the dream? Where is God? Where is the beholding? Whatever appears in a dream is nothing but powers of Māyā. This is nothing but a kind of illusion! The day we rid ourselves of this illusion, on that very day the real power begins in us.

Some say, ‘We are doing dhyāna on God.’ They say they saw a great light in that dhyāna.