Passage 2

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In plain words

Wherever one looks, the Ātma alone is seen; what is called anātma is not seen. After some time Gokak was able to recognise this very clearly. At that time I stood by him as his support and protection. A true devotee always has God's help. That help is not something given just for the moment. It is help that is lasting, true and eternal. After some time Gokak became close to Me for ever. Giving up his doubts, free of uncertainty, he held fast to the fundamental principle, which belongs to the formless and whose form is eternal, pure, awakened, free and stainless. Only in such a state, free of doubt, does Satya reveal itself; Mokṣa is attained. What is Mokṣa? The destruction of delusion is itself Mokṣa. Satya is in you, in Me and in everyone, as one. So those who have made Satya their basis never undergo change. Everything changes, but Satya alone undergoes no change of any kind.

Every human being must come to know what is eternal and true through enquiry into the Ātma

What is this Satya like? No one sees it; no one hears it. Yet it seems as though it is seen, as though it is heard. But it lies beyond both. We must make due effort to recognise such Satya. In this world we pass the time somehow, playing and singing, but all this is not eternal. Gokak held fast to the fundamental principle precisely because he had recognised this truth well. While he was at the Aurobindo Ashram he read the book called ‘Sāvitrī’. He made that very Sāvitrī his basis. The name Sāvitrī seems to belong to a woman, but here Sāvitrī is neither female nor male. “Sāvitrī is my fundamental principle,” he felt. At the very last he beheld that principle.