Passage 5

In English

In the present context, people must try first to improve themselves and then the society and then their country. If the individual does not improve himself but tries to improve society, the attempt will be a failure. We must first try to set right our home. Then we must try to improve the village; afterward our district; next our province, and next the whole country. We must go step by step like this. But without knowing ourselves first, it will be meaningless attempting to improve society and the whole country. If we want to experience the “,” we will be able to do so only in society. It is madness to go to the forest and try to experience instead of improving our home and the society in which we are living. God is all-pervading; He is found in the hearts of all living beings. How can a heart that cannot love living fellow beings love God? People will be, on the one hand, praying to God and on the other, harming other people. This is not proper.