In English
Cleverness is out of place in spiritual affairs
knew of only one Person who was free from jealousy and pride and that was , the Mother. So he went to the temple and prayed before the Mother to assure him of high status among poem. After a long time spent in intense prayer, heard a Voice emanating from the shrine and it extolled and as great geniuses and scholars. There was not even a whisper about his attainments! So, he got hurt and even enraged; he gave vent to his ire in harsh words and insisted that She should declare the truth, however unpleasant. Then the Voice announced, " - "You are Myself, you are Myself, you are Myself, without doubt!" What greater status did need than this? That is the reply that every seeker will get, for that is his truth, his reality, his prize and consummation. There are many stories which describe as a very resourceful poet who defeated the stratagems of his opponents by (cleverness); but his was much greater than . I am reminded of the cleverness of a householder when he heard at midnight the noise of his house being broken into by thieves. He guessed that they were within earshot and so he asked his wife loud enough to be heard by the thieves. "Why are you torturing me thus, asking me to bring back all your jewels that I have pledged with the ? I know that all your gold has gone to him and you know that I have not even a with me; let good times come; I shall certainly recover them and give you. But now?" You need not be told that the thieves left, to enter some other house that night; they left the house that had "no gold, not even a ." Such cleverness is out of place in spiritual affairs where all artifice and artificiality are impediments rather than helps. It is when cleverness increases and chokes sincerity and straightforwardness in spiritual matters and in the relationship between God and Man that the comes. As the Health Minister of said just now, cleverness degenerates into conceit, and that makes man forget God who is the inner motivator.