Passage 1

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In plain words

Embodiments of Prema! Vyaṣṭi is the first power, samaṣṭi the second power, sṛṣṭi the third power, and Parameṣṭhi itself is the fourth power. That itself is Brahman. Out of Brahman emerged sṛṣṭi. Out of sṛṣṭi samaṣṭi was formed. Out of samaṣṭi came vyaṣṭi. So vyaṣṭi must serve society. Service itself is the foremost duty of man. The very joys and pleasures that the beasts and birds, the worms and insects of the world enjoy, man too enjoys. Then what is the use of his being born a human being? Every human being must serve society. For whom? For society itself. And society is for whom? For the world. This whole creation is the very form of God. That is precisely why Kṛṣṇa said, ‘Mamaivāṃśo jīvaloke jīva bhūtassanātanaḥ’, ‘Every individual, every living being too, is My own portion.’ Since every living being too is a portion of God, we must worship every living being, honour it and make it happy. We must not hate anyone, nor push anyone away from us. In our body the hands, the shoulders, the stomach, the legs ... all these work depending on one another. All these limbs belong to one and the same body. In the same way, all living beings too are none other than the various limbs of the one God. The foot is in one place, the eye in another. Yet when the foot is hurt, the eye weeps. Just as close a bond as there is between the eye and the foot, so close a bond is there between God and living beings. But you may think, ‘God is giving us troubles, causing us pain, handing us sorrow!’ All these are only the fruits of the karma you yourselves have done; they are not what God has handed you. God is the embodiment of Ānanda, the embodiment of immortality.