Passage 7

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Yet the principle of the Ātma is one. Whether you go to America, stay in India, go to Japan, go to Germany or go to Pakistan, the sun you see everywhere is the one sun, is it not! Now, when it is day for us, it is dark in America. Then, is the sun not there? Is it here only? No, no. It is there, and it is here. Because the earth turns, it is seen in one place and not seen in another. Wherever you look, what exists is the one sun, the one God. So we need not search for God, thinking He is somewhere far off; He is in us alone. We must believe, “God is right behind me, right beside me, right in my home, right in my eyes.” To those who have such faith, God appears wherever they want. When you think of a Name, Kṛṣṇa's Name or Rāma's Name, if you keep that form in your mind, God will surely appear to you in that very form. So do not grieve that you have gone far from God. If God Himself went far from you, how could you live! So God and you are one indeed. On this very ground Īśvara has been called “Ardhanārīśvara”. That means nothing but the oneness of Prakṛti and Puruṣa! Only because we look at this Prakṛti merely as Prakṛti do we fall into so many troubles. So, letting go of this view of Prakṛti: “Prakṛti too is nothing but the form of Paramātma! I myself am in Prakṛti too”: that oneness we must develop. The dual feeling that God is one thing and devotees another must not be in you at all. Do not think, “He is God, I am a servant.” You are not a servant; God is not separate from you. You yourself are God. So you must always believe, ‘I am God, I am God, I am God.’ Only as a mark to know you by do you give yourselves some names. These names are not permanent. These forms and names are bound to be left behind some day! What is never left behind is the Ātma alone! You must regard it as oneness.

You say, ‘This is my body.’ Then who are you? Only because you are separate can you say ‘my body’, is it not?