Passage 4

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In plain words

There must always be a steady faith. Now unrest is flaring up in the world in so many ways; many people turn to many kinds of wickedness. What must we do now? Contemplating God is enough! We must live in contemplation of the Ātma. We have no need to use any bombs or any weapons. Let us always stay calm. Whatever happens is for our good! If we hold the feeling that these people did something or those people did something, hatred toward them comes to us. So we must calmly contemplate God and the Ātma. When you are in contemplation of the Ātma, these worldly worries will not frighten you at all.

Faith must stay steady to the last breath

The body belongs to Prakṛti; it is born, and it dies. But for the Paramātma there is no death and no birth.

The Eternal One, who has no death and no birth, free of beginning, middle and end, the beginningless one, not dying, not being born, not being killed, shines everywhere as the onlooker of all.

Forgetting such an embodiment of the Ātma, we keep wishing far too much for negative desires that belong to the body. We cannot say at what minute this body will go! The body is a water bubble; the mind is a mad monkey. So we must not put our trust in either the body or the mind. Yet as long as we are here, we must tend the body with care; after that it goes by itself. No one stays in this world for ever. Only one thing is eternal, and that is the Ātma. Everyone keeps saying ‘myself, myself’; they keep saying 'I', 'I'. That very ‘self’ is the Ātma principle. The one-letter word 'I' is itself the Ātma principle. We must not keep two minds. “The one with dual mind is half blind,” it has been said. So there must be one mind only. Once we have established faith in our heart, that faith must stay steady until we die.