Passage 4

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In plain words

For all that we see is nothing but our own reflection! All that we hear is nothing but our own echo! We must recognise this Satya. We must experience oneness. Rāma and Kṛṣṇa are names Their parents gave Them. When God incarnated, He did not announce Himself, ‘I am Rāma’, ‘I am Kṛṣṇa’. These names were given only after They were born; they did not exist before Their birth.

We must believe, ‘I myself am God’

There is no need to search for God anywhere at all. If someone asks where God is, you must be able to say boldly, ‘I myself am God.’ You must hold fast to oneness. You install God in buildings of stone and cement, in temples; but in truth God is already installed in everyone. With this very truth in view, Kṛṣṇa Paramātma proclaimed, ‘An eternal part of Me has become the jīva in the world of living beings’, ‘I Myself am in all.’ Through Satya, Dharma, Śānti, Prema and Ahiṃsā we are able to recognise this Satya. Where is Satya? Is it outside? No. Satya, Dharma, Śānti, Prema: all of them are right here with us. With all of them right here with us, we go searching outside for reflections. As long as we keep searching for the reflections, the original does not come to our mind. Divinity is right within us. So you must hold the thought, ‘I myself am God.’ Then we shall have no fear of any kind, no anxiety of any kind, no delusion of any kind. As long as we do not regard ourselves as God, we cannot give up the delusion of the body.

All ties of kinship are nothing but delusions!

After a girl and a boy are married, she says, ‘This is my husband.’ But how long will the husband be there? He is there for some time. How long will the wife be there? She is there for some time. After that there is no tie at all between the one and the other. Who is the husband? Who is the wife? This is mere imagination, nothing more!