In English
View the Universe as the handiwork of God
You have to busy yourselves with activity, in order to use time and skill to the best advantage. That is your duty and duty is God. The dull and the inert will hesitate to be active, for fear of exhaustion or failure, or loss. The emotional, passionate individuals will plunge headlong and crave for quick results and will be disappointed if they do not come in. The balanced persons will be active, because it is their duty, they will not be agitated by anything - failure or success. The godly will take up activity as a means of worshipping God, and they leave the result to God. They know that they are but instruments in the hands of God. The godly are following the Sathwik, but, due to sheer ignorance and the unquestioned obedience to the senses, man is suffering pain and grief; that is the sad state of affairs, not only in India but all over the world. Try to sanctify every item of work by dedicating it to some Divine end. The Universe is the handiwork of God, and therefore, meaningful and moral. View it as such and derive the utmost benefit. Without dedication, work is like a paper-flower, unfit to be offered to God; cheap, fragranceless, dry, tawdry. Offer God real flowers grown in the garden of your heart, fragrant, beautiful, delighting. Try to see everyone as a ray of God. Life is a see-saw, with man sitting on a plank, poised on the round log - , his basic nature of Wisdom. When the plank comes down to one side, it is - , emotional adoration; when it comes down on the other side, it is - , activity to adore men as embodiments of divinity, service to man, adoration of nature by fostering love and tenderness. So long as the see-saw is based on , one is safe. (Wisdom) is the awareness that God is all. He is the seed, the Universe is .the tree; instincts, impulses, emotions, passions - these are the branches and boughs and twigs; intelligence is the flower; pure unattached consciousness is the fruit; love is the sweetness in the fruit.