Passage 3

In English

Use this day to address this prayer, sincerely to your (chosen deity), your (the Form of the Lord you like most). Festivals connected with the Moon and the Sun are celebrated in our country, in order to drive into the minds of men the importance of mind control ( or moon is the Deity of the Mind) and of clarifying the intelligence. ( or the Sun is the Deity of the Intelligence). When the Sun moves North-ward - that is 'Godward' - the Intelligence too must proceed Godward. That is the significance of the . Putting your faith in the machines and machine-made things, faith in power of the controlled mind and in the potentialities of the clarified and purified intelligence has declined. (machine) has eclipsed the (sacred formula); but, this is a passing phase. alone can guarantee or peace. A king became insane; he imagined he was a beggar, that he was ill, that he had become decrepit, and he wept. Now, how is he to realise that he is a king? You have to restore his reason; that is the only way. So too, the Immortal, Blissful, Invincible imagines himself to be limited, and little. He blames himself and calls himself a sinner, born in sin and revelling in sin, praying on his knees to be saved. Of course, if he knows he is divine, he will never stoop to sin or vice or weakness.