Passage 10

In English

Time spent on thoughts of God is rewarded

There are some ignorant persons who laugh at and other acts of worship and characterise them as waste of valuable time! These persons might laugh at your pouring bags of paddy seeds on slushy fields and condemn that act too as waste of valuable food material! But, you know that for every bag of seed, Mother Earth will give back, in a few weeks, grain tenfold or even twentyfold. Time spent in thoughts of God or adoration of the Divine is indeed well-spent, for, it rewards you with a rich harvest of mental peace and courage. When thieves attack the neighbour, you become alert and keep vigil; you feel that it may be your turn next. So you must see that thieves do not enter the village. For, then, all can be safe and secure. Your neighbour's loss is as much your own. Do not inflame your anger and blow it into a conflagration which may destroy the entire village. Be cool, calm yourself. Take a glass of cold water and lie down quiet for a while, till the fury loses its heat. Do not fly into a passion and throw vulgar abuse at the person you dislike, And be careful; do not indulge in behaviours and start imitating them before your children; for, they will learn these behaviours and start imitating. You cannot easily correct them later.