In English
Burn away your sensual cravings like camphor
Cleanse the heart with the water of and the detergents prayer and contrition, so that the stains of desire might be removed. Then God will pour His Grace into it. You should give up and (attachment to the external world and to the body), if you yearn for God. There is no use trying to have one foot in one boat and the other foot in another boat. You may be in this area for 20 or 25 years, but if you worry more about physical needs and comforts than and , your stay is a waste. You have made no progress at all. The waving of the camphor flame at the end of the sessions is to remind you that your sensual cravings must be burnt away without leaving any trace behind, and you must offer yourself to God for being merged with His Glory. There was an old woman who had two grand-daughters, one a termagant and the other a modest girl. When they touched her feet before departure from her house, she blessed the termagant: "May the festoons and the auspicious drawings on your doorstep be ever fresh and untrodden, unwiped; may your purse be full, ever undisturbed." She meant, of course, to curse her with barrenness. She blessed the other girl, thus: "May your doorstep be unclean, may your purse be emptying fast," meaning that she would have a number of happy boisterous children, a mode of blessing for a married woman, usually given by a grandmother. On the fat e of it, the first one looks like a blessing and the other statement a curse. But, the inner meaning is different. This grannie blessed unasked; the modest and truthful person can also receive blessings out of the spontaneous Grace of the Lord, provided he is steady in his virtues. He should have no hypocrisy in his make up.