Passage 1

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From Satya all things were created; into Satya all creation subsides; search as you may, what place is there without the glory of Satya? This itself is pure sattva: see it!

Everywhere, Satya alone pervades. Everywhere, Satya itself moves. Everywhere, we behold Satya alone. Our seeing, touching and speaking are all bound up with Satya! Satya has no form of its own. Whatever we see, that is Satya itself! (Swami created a ring.) This is Satya. Where did it come from? From Satya alone it came, and into Satya itself it merges (as everyone watched, the ring vanished from Swami's divine hand). ‘All this, truly, is Brahman.’ Satya itself is the form of Brahman. Satya is not two; it is one! Even so, it takes a great deal of effort to recognise Satya. Satya is not merely something that belongs to speech. Satya has taken on incarnations of many kinds. ‘Brahman is of endless forms.’ All is full of Brahman! That is why it has been said, ‘Brahman is real; the world is illusory.’ All the rest is only its reflection, nothing other than it. Though Satya is one, it appears in many forms and names. Everything is born of Satya! From Satya came Dharma. “There is no Dharma higher than Satya.” When Satya and Dharma become one, Śānti arises.