Passage 2

In English

Direct all your powers towards God

It may be said that love is a universal virtue and it is being manifested in human relations, more or less, by all. But, it is limited and poisoned by petty considerations and dried up by hatred and envy. Love must see the best in others and not the worst. Love cannot ignore the divinity in others. Blind men have the right to deny light; but, those with eyes, have no such explanation. When such men swear that they see only the many, and not the One, it is surely the fault of the vision. Try to correct it, through (spiritual discipline). You have three means of understanding: (the power of the Will), (the power of Action) and (the power of Knowledge). Direct all three towards God; Desire Him, Serve Him and Know Him. Do not let senses and the emotions run away with you on their back. Hold them in check. Set before them the goal of God. If your emotions prescribe one direction, guide them in the contrary direction; that is the way to counter their evil. Once it happened that , and who were quite little boys at that time, scarcely four or five years old, strayed into a thick jungle, all alone, when darkness fell, and there was no way of reaching ! Of course, as you must have guessed already, it was a stratagem of ; even at that age, he would do nothing without a deep purpose behind it and the purpose would invariably be teaching some one some good lesson. They decided to spend the night, just where they were; put fright into them, with his descriptions of ghosts, ghouls and demons roaming in search of human prey. He proposed that two shall sleep for. three hours at a stretch while the other one kept watch.