Merely by being without hatred, the dehī is not won. Ānanda is not attained; one does not become the object of God's love. Take the farmer who grows a crop as a fitting comparison, and the truth becomes clear; doubt departs. Before putting a crop in the land, the farmer pulls up and throws away the useless plants and grass in it; but that alone does not bring the crop home. Next he ploughs and tills the land, and then plants in it the seedlings of whatever crop has to be put in, sown or planted, or sows the seeds; only when he tends them does the crop come home, is it not so? In the same way, one pulls out from the land of the heart the useless thorny plants, the past vāsanās called ‘attachment, hatred, envy and ostentation’; one does the tilling called ‘the doing of good karmas’, that is, one ploughs and tills; and then one plants in it the plants of ‘Ānanda’. If one carries on the sādhana called ‘discipline’, the crop of Ānanda comes home.