Passage 6

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In plain words

The principle of God is just like that current. Turn off that ‘main switch’, and all living beings fall lifeless. That is why Kṛṣṇa Paramātma said, ‘An eternal portion of Myself has become the living being in the world of the living’, ‘All are My own portions.’ The current called the Ātma, present in all, is one and the same. When you are My portion, you must be like Me, must you not! The very power that is in Me must be in you, must it not! Every person in the world, every living creature too, is a portion of God. So whoever we see, we must bow to them. We must honour every person and love every person. Only then will our life shine. Humanness is most sacred. The principle of Prema in man is boundless. No one can describe the power of that Prema, saying it is like this or like that.

The Prema of the Ātma is eternal Satya; love of the body is mixed with desires

Worldly love keeps changing from day to day. For example, for the first week after the wedding the husband cannot stay away from his wife for even a moment. When the two of them are walking along together and a thorn shows up anywhere on the path, the husband, full of anxiety, cries, ‘A thorn, a thorn, a thorn!’, takes his wife by the hand and pulls her aside. A month later, if a thorn shows up on the path again, he merely warns her, ‘You'll step on it, careful.’ Six months after that: ‘Can't your eyes see? There's a thorn over there!’ he snaps. In this way worldly love dwindles day by day. As the times are today, husbands and wives are even getting divorced. But in former times things were not like this; Prema stayed the same from beginning to end. That itself is the true Prema of the Ātma. Love of the body changes. It is mixed with desires; it is like a passing cloud. Prema for God alone is lasting. Why do you let go of such Prema, eternal Satya, cling to a love that is passing and untrue, and strain after it so? But elders who give such good teaching are very rare today. In fact the elders, more than the children, are caught up in the craze for modernity and changing. ‘Revere your mother as God, revere your father as God, revere your teacher as God, revere your guest as God,’ it was said.