Passage 2

In English

Share your joys and sorrows with others

Find out the difficulties and troubles burdening others and help them, to the extent you can, to tide over them, and, to lead their lives so that they may not recur. Learn to live with other men; share your joys and sorrows with others; be forbearing, not overbearing. When you live together in amity, the village will be happy and safe; and, when the villages are well-knit and strong, the State too will be strong and impregnable. Jealousy, anger, hatred and greed will disintegrate the State and make it fall into disorder and distress. Drive away the divisive forces that keep man away from man, and prevent hearty co-operation and mutual help. has won special fame in our country, because of the valour of its people. I desire and bless that it should become equally famous for Adhyathmic (spiritual) valour. Inculcate discipline in the field of also and insist on people performing their duty to themselves and to their destiny. Devotion is like the head; duty is the trunk; discipline is the feet. Let devotion be linked with duty and led by discipline; then, success is certain. The life of man should not be a wasteful round of eating, drinking and sleeping; man has the (soul) as his reality and so, he must learn to become aware of that unfailing source of Bliss. By the proper use of his intelligence, man can tap that spring and be supremely blissful. Happiness can be won only by proceeding towards God, not by following the urges of the senses.