Passage 3

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God, with great compassion, took into Himself even those who fought against Him.

Nowhere in this world is there a place where God is absent. In whatever you look at, God is there.

His hands and feet are everywhere; everywhere His eyes, heads and faces; everywhere in the world His ears; He stands enveloping all.

Though no one may be watching, He Himself is watching all the while. Though no one may be listening, He Himself is listening all the while. But you are unable to recognise this Satya. “If there is such a one as God, we do not see Him! Where are His ears, to hear our prayers?” many people argue. Sound itself is the form of God. Nowhere is there a place without sound. That sound itself is God's hearing. Nowhere in the world is there a spot without light. That light itself is God's sight. So do not think that God knows nothing. Do not argue that God does not exist merely because the eye does not see Him. The feelings that rise from your heart: where do they come from? That is nothing but the will of God. In the worldly view one thing may increase and another decrease. But the principle of Paramātma neither increases nor decreases in the least. The world and the Lord of the world are both one. Between creation and the Creator there is a bond that cannot be broken.

To give forms and names to divinity is Ajñāna

To the divinity that pervades everything they gave the name ‘Ātma’. The Ātma has no particular form. Not to think of this divinity as one, but to imagine forms and names for it and worship them, is a great mistake. Only because he cannot recognise the fullness of God does man go through these troubles. ‘Sarvaṃ khalvidaṃ brahma’. All is the very form of God. Unable to recognise that complete form of God, people imagine petty shapes for God, give Him names such as Rāma, Kṛṣṇa and Viṣṇu, and worship Him.