Passage 3

In English

Use the body well for the purpose given

The individual () and the Divine () are the two rails along which the engine mind () is dragging along the coaches of attachment to sense objects. Each coach contains the items of luggage you have, viz. mind, intellect, memory, ego, etc. is the driver of the engine. If the coupling with the engine is not well connected, the coaches will be left loose on the line. Faith and trust are the couplings; see that they are fixed tight. They do not fix themselves, remember. You have to use the strength and the intellect awarded to you. Grace will be granted only then. Spend the energy () with which you are endowed; then pray for divine energy (). (the Lord) will then bless you - if you ask for one, He will grant you a hundred. This is the working body given to you; use it well for the purpose given. I see many people here who have come in special buses that take them round to many holy places. I shall tell them some words. When you reach a holy place, entertain only holy thought. On seeing a doctor, you remember your illness; when you see a lawyer, you wish to consult him on some problem of property or personal spite; when you see a temple, you are reminded of the Force that animates the universe. Your travel should be not for amusement but for using discrimination (not but ). Do not use such pilgrim buses for going on picnics; do not seek to purchase vessels and clothes and rarities in the shops of the towns you visit; pay attention more to the need for filling your minds with holy experiences over which you can ruminate after returning to the quiet of your home. When you are in a holy place (), think of the divine dweller of the place ().