Passage 6

In English

This is work, which you are invited to enjoy. This is elevating work that brings you nearer to the heart of the Divine. When hastened to save the elephant front the jaws of the crocodile, the says, He did not take with Him the weapons - wheel or even the Lotus or the Conch. He went empty handed, as far as eye could discern. The conscious hand must have the inert pickaxe in order to break the hard sod; so too, the Divine Consciousness must have the (objective world or objective instrument) to carry out His plan. You have the chance to contribute to the happiness and beatitude of thousands. In order to carry out this duty, you have yourselves to lead exemplary lives. Your (daily living) must be transformed into live prayers and live . How much struggle are you now going through for ensuring physical comfort! You have to struggle much more for ensuring mental peace and spiritual progress, for (life in truth). Calculate within yourselves the benefit that would accrue to you from this into which you are initiated now, and prepare for shouldering the task assigned to you - to be instruments dedicated for advancing the mission on which the Divine has come.