Do not try to find fault with others, search, rather for your own. I direct you to implant three idea in your hearts
- Do not forget God
- Do not put faith in the world you see around you; it is changing every second and does not last
- Do not be afraid of death. You are the imperishable Atman that knows no fear.
I want you also to banish two ideas from your hearts:
- Forget the harm that any one has done to you and
- Forget the good that you have done to others.
(SSS Vol.8, p. 89)
Divinity is ever present in man in all its purity. But man is unable to recognise this because of his attachments to transient pleasures like the black bee. This bee has a proboscis with which it can bore a hole through a strong bamboo or even through the human body. But when it enters a lotus flower and the lotus folds itself, the bee is unable to get out of its tender petals because it is immersed in the enjoyment of the honey in the lotus and forgets its own real strength. Likewise, man today, forgetting the Divine that is present within him in everything he beholds, immersed in worldly concerns and intoxicated with mundane pleasures, is oblivious to his own true Divine nature. Man forgets his inherent capacity in the involvement with the mastery of the external world. (SSS Vol.21, p. 101)