Passage 12

In English

It is possible during this one month, there may be certain inconveniences you have to put up with. The food and comfort may not suit you. You have to bear up with all this and bear it with pleasure, because such a training is essential in your lives. This discipline is, in fact, the first step in self-realisation. The reason why I have called this the first step during your training is that today there are a large number of people who cannot put up with difficulties and inconveniences, and yet, wish to achieve bigger and more subtle things. This study and discipline, to which you will submit your-selves, will lead you to happiness and bliss. If you cannot put up with small difficulties, how will you be shaping into people who are to rectify social evils? Some day or other difficulties are going to come your way. So also sorrow and great inconveniences are going to come your way. It is much better to stand firm and know what those difficulties are when you are young. Then you will be able to withstand such difficulties in your later lives with some ease. In this summer course, you must take various difficulties you come across as part of your education and put up with them cheerfully. Some people do physical exercises to keep their bodies strong. While doing such exercises, you feel tired and experience discomfort; but after the exercises are over, you get the strength for your muscles. There is no doubt that all the difficulties and obstacles you may come across will be the necessary exercises to give you happiness in your later lives.