Passage 5

In English

Love is the secret source of all sympathy

The world is one vast Society. Every individual in it is part of this Society, bound to it by the love that draws man to man, to be kith and kin. This love is there, deep in the heart of man. Only, it is unrecognised, ignored, doubted, denied, argued away. It is the secret source of all sympathy, and Service; it creates the urge to live in and for Society.. It is the , that flows from One spark of the Divine to all sparks. When the eyes shine illumined by the highest wisdom, , they see all as the One. Man realises that (All is pervaded by ) (all that is apparently changing and transforming and moving). To have this One revealed as in All, one has to develop faith and discipline the mind. The mind has to shed its fancies and foibles; the Truth has to be known and experienced. Learning things by heart will result in only heartache. Learning or verses can only help you from not being engaged in anything worse during that time. They cannot take you an inch nearer the goal. How can mastery of the map equal the joy of the journey? Faith is an individual asset; it is acquired and preserved by one's own efforts. , the Thamil sage, used to say, "You have the freedom to say No; I have the right to say Yes." What he meant was, when one denies or asserts a thing, it is the outcome of his experience. How can any one dispute the experience of another? God may not exist in the horizon of your experience, but he has already risen in mine - that is what the thiest tells the atheist. The time indicated by the watch on his own wrist is the correct time for him and he asserts so, though others might not agree. And, he has the freedom to do so. Have faith; do not allow it to shake, because some one else has no faith. Until you realise that you are Divine, that God is your Core and Reality, you will have to undergo these entrances and exists; the same newspaper should not be pored over again and again, day after day; one life must be enough to know the mystery. So, at least, recognise that there is a mystery, search for the secret, and unravel it for yourself.