In English
Transmute every act into sacred worship
The tree of life is a tree of delusion, with all its branches and leaves and flowers of . You can realise it as such, when you do all acts as dedicated offerings for God. See him as the sap through every cell as the Sun warming and building every part. See Him in all, worship Him through all, for He is all. Engage in activity, but, fill the activity with devotion: it is the devotion that sanctifies. A piece of paper is almost trash; but, if a certificate is written on it, you value it and treasure it; it becomes passport for promotion in life. It is the (thought behind) that matters, not the (outward pomp); the feeling, not the activity that is performed. At or at , you find only a stone shaped as an idol; as stone, it is of little value. But, when feeling permeates it, when devotion transmutes it, the stone becomes the Supremest Treasure of the human mind. Man does not know this secret of transmuting every act of his into sacred worship and so, he suffers from disappointment and grief. There is a lot of wasteful discussion as to the superiority of one or path over another, especially between the partisans of , and . But these three paths - Work, Worship and Wisdom - are supplementary, not contradictory. Work is like the feet, Worship, the hands, and Wisdom, the head. The three must co-operate and complete life. Worship or or is the name given to the path of or surrender to the Lord's Will, the merging of the individual Will in the Will of the Universal. is the classic example of this spirit of surrender that saves. Once during his exile in the forest, asked to put up a leaf-hut on a site of his choice. was shocked; he was struck down with grief. He pleaded with : "Why do you ask me to select the site? Have I any individuality left? Can I choose? Will I select? Don't you know that I have no will of my own. You decide and I obey; you command, I carry out the order." That is real , real . This can be acquired by constant practice of detachment.