Passage 5

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In plain words

Not only here: when your classes are all over and you go back, if on sunday, instead of defiling your time in some cinema, some picnic, some needless thing or other, you go to the villages and gather even five or six people as a committee, then the villagers themselves, ten or twelve more, will join, and in that village we become those who have tasted sacred service, those who have given it. If, just when this sacred human birth has come to us, we keep going off to these picnics, in the end Yama will give us a pick-neck. So, without wasting our time, we on sunday — sunday means (how many have come from Tamil Nadu?) — in Tamil, sunday means fighting. This sunday, do not set about quarrels of this kind. Hoping that everyone, coming together, will make life worthwhile in sacred work — if I go on to a longer talk, the work will become very little. Do much work, and set about tasting Ānanda in a modest life. This itself is what they called ‘simple living high thinking’. Now rise for social service, and take part in your programme without any breach of discipline at all.