Passage 16

In English

Our devotion and prayer to God should not be for the sole purpose of obtaining something or fulfilling some desire of ours. This should be for the sake of or for becoming one with the Lord and for the sake of getting the bliss that one can get by being close to the Lord. The first thing one should attempt to do in this context is to make one’s speech sacred. The spoken word is the form of , and our heart is the embodiment of . Our thought and word together have the form of . This may also be understood by us as signifying the stream of love or . If such a stream of is turned backwards, it will be very difficult to return it back to the right direction. The by-gone days of man’s youth and the water of a stream that has flown down cannot be retrieved. Therefore, if we let , the embodiment of our speech, go astray without control, then it is very difficult to bring her back. We should not use the wrong word and abuse our speech causing trouble or harm or deceit to others.