Passage 13

In English

In order to cleanse and achieve the purification of yourself, you have to control your sight, your tongue, and your senses to some extent. As a prelude to your doing something wrong or something unworthy, there will have been an initial action by which your eyes must have seen something bad, or you must have heard some words which had excited you to do something bad, or you must have gone through an experience which will have made your mind wander and get excited. This is the way by which one becomes mad all through one’s life. If you, the youth of today, take great care that your sight does not become impure, that your hearing does not become impure, that your words do not become impure, then you will be able to attain purity of mind and purity of thought.