In English
Turn your sight inside, to purify and clarify
This day, when you are celebrating the birth of , you have to dedicate your activities to these ideals propounded in the life of . The fact that you are alive this day is a blessing, for, you can know of these ideals and also the means by which you can realise them in actual daily life. There are many who spend much time in mechanically reciting the name or systematically reading the entire according to a fixed time-table, or who worship the images of , , , and , as a daily ritual, with pomp and pedantry; but, like the person who puts a foot forward only to draw it back again these persons do not progress at all, though years might elapse. Without gaining purity of thoughts and intentions, compassion and the urge to serve, these outward expressions and exhibitions are but ways of cheating the society which applauds you as a great devotee. Your sight must become insight; it must be turned within and used to purify and clarify. People talk glibly of (Vision of the Divine), the vision that liberates. The Seeer and the Seen have to merge and become One and experienced as One only, without a second. That is the that is worthwhile. You may have a fruit. You may earn the fruit of (penance) in your hand. But, unless you eat it, digest it, and make it part of your own nature and derive strength therefrom, you are not saved at all. Merge info the Divine which you really are; that is the consummation. In order to reach this goal, you have to proceed far. First examine your present equipment; find out its defects, for example, whether it is damaged by egotism, greed, insincerity, waywardness and sloth. For, with these faults, it is difficult to concentrate on thoughts of God, either within or without. You must also cultivate the positive quality of (Love) for the Embodiment of can be realised only through . That is the message the gives all those who study it with sincere desire to learn. That is the message I wish to give you today.