In English
In no human endeavour can we bypass this process of purification. I wish to cite another small example. Every student has a watch on his hand. When you take this watch and put it in fire, you will find that the whole of it is reduced to metal or metallic ash. All of it will fetch in the market only a few . But as long as it remains as a watch, it will fetch you anything like a few hundred . Are we paying this few hundred for the metal that is contained in the watch? Or are we paying that amount for the purification and the transformation that have been given to the metal before giving it the shape of a watch? The payment of a few hundred is obviously towards the transformation that has been given to the metal from which the bolts, nuts, wheels, the springs and all the components of the watch have been made. It is not being paid for the metal or the steel that has gone into making these bolts and nuts. It is therefore not possible to assign any high value to the many different individuals and different shapes that you see in human beings. If you really want to assess human beings and assign values, you have to see and assess how these different persons are behaving, what their character is, what changes have come about in them after birth and what are the paths which they are following.