Passage 6

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There is no ‘send-off’ here; it is always welcome, welcome, welcome! “Wherever you may go, keep coming here,” I told them. From the very beginning until now their family has lived in unwavering devotion to Swami. Swami is enshrined in their heart. Though outwardly we may seem to be some distance apart, in mind we are one. He is Mine. I am his. “You and I are one,” I said. Not he alone: none of you either is separate. Though as individuals you are outside, with different forms and names, together you are in Me alone. ‘Īśvaraḥ sarvabhūtānāṃ’, ‘Īśāvāsyam idaṃ jagat.’ Even ants are forms of God! There is nothing anywhere that is not God.

Out of Satya He created all; in Satya all creation is absorbed; look where you will, what place is without the glory of Satya? This itself is pure sattva; see it, sirs!

All is God! We must not think that someone is punishing us. The one who punishes, and the one who protects as well, is God Himself! ‘Whether there is gain or loss, whether good happens or bad, all is the will of God’: you must always hold this feeling firmly. Whatever anyone does, a small task or a big one, all is the will of God! You must not hate people because they have hurt you. “They too are my own, my own, my own”: such a feeling of Prema you must hold firmly.

You yourself are God!

All are one. All are one, be alike to everyone. Bodies may be different; feelings may be different.