Passage 6

In English

Effort is essential for contacting God

Once you attain this , the waking experience of fifty years will appear as of five seconds only, as in a two seconds dream one passess from childhood to grandparenthood and experiences passage of 50 years of time! is as passing from (dream) stage to the (waking) stage which judges the dream stage as unreal. Seek the springs of (bliss) within you and happiness will be your lot, here and for ever. Believe that the within you is derived from God who is your Reality. Effort is essential for contacting God and deriving therefrom, just as effort is needed to listen to the radio programmes that are everywhere around us. A (instrument) must be procured for the reception of that music or talk; a (a sacred formula) is needed for the concretisation of that abstract entity, God, and for sharing the Bliss that He is. A little of that Bliss will wipe out all trace of pettiness and passion from man. Now, relations between men are vitiated by malice and hatred. The Government, the administration and the people (, and ) are as the three blades in the electric fan; when all three rotate together in the same direction and at the same speed, they conduce to comfort. Anger, malice, greed, envy - all these are obstacles in the path of love and co-operation. They lower man from the Divine to the animal level. Bear with others with patience and understanding; practise (forbearance) and sympathy. Try to discover points of contact, not of conflict. Spread brotherliness and deepen kindness through knowledge. Then life becomes worth while, without fail.