Passage 13

Tap any word for its meaning.

In plain words

“If any one of these is not holy, that is, if the tapas of the Manas, the tapas of the body or the tapas of speech is not holy, the light of the Ātma will not shine. How so? Just as a wick, oil and a lamp-bowl are needed to light a lamp, so it is here: the body is the lamp-bowl, the Manas is the oil, speech is the wick. It is the union of these three that is the foundation of the light's shining.”

Sri Satchitananda Sai