Passage 9

In English

Become free from the taint of selfishness

This vastly spacious shed with all amenities of lighting and sound equipment where you are sitting comfortably in thousands, with this platform so broad and deep, and so impressively designed are the products of the dedication and sense of duly of another individual about whom I want to tell you. Keeping in mind the target date set by Swami, Sri P.R. Kamani, one of the greatest of Swami's Devotees, has personally supervised the erection of this shed. Supplying scarce articles like iron and cement and also the technical guidance and skill, with a smiling face and an exuberant heart, he sought to fulfil Swami's and succeeded. Sri P.R. Kamani is responsible for giving you all so much delight. His devotion and the loving care and steady attention that he bestows on any work connected with Swami is really remarkable. It is decided that this great auditorium shall be consecrated to the memory of Sri ' P. R. Kamani. From this day, it shall be known as Auditorium. , where we derive all this is like the Full Moon, the embodiment and symbol of a full mind that is free from the taint of selfishness and wavering. It is my intention and desire that all those who use this Auditorium and who listen to and are inspired by the discourses and Special Programmes that happen here should also become 'Full Moons'. Sometimes, we pursue this or that fragment of the mind and derive some little , spending our lives this way and that, but the highest fulfilment is to have the full expansion of the pure mind, which is symbolised by the Full Moon - . The mind is the Moon, the (intelligence) is the Sun and both are interacting with each other, rotating in the heart, which is the sky! In the sky, clouds of pleasure and sorrow, disappointment and success, joys and griefs, may be rolling along. But, in spite of these, the Sun and Moon carry on their allotted duties. So man too must carry on in a spirit of dedication, as P. R. Kamani did. We can assert; that there is no fulfilment greater than that, there is no merit higher than that, to be acquired by man.