In English
The three debts to be discharged during one's life
There rare certain fundamental duties that man has to accomplish through his intelligence. Three of these are referred to in the scriptures as ma (debt). Man has to discharge three debts as a consequence of his human birth and earthly career. The first one is , the debt to be repaid to the Gods. Every organ of the human body, every function in fact, is dominated and controlled and motivated by a Divine Power, or God. Therefore as a grateful repayment for the debt man owes to Him he has to use his organs, limbs, functions and skills for the benefit of other men and for the welfare of the community. The second debt is called , the debt owned by man to the sages, seers and ancient lawgivers. Long before the birth of this generation, a beneficent code of morals and a precious collection of guidelines for the realm of the spirit had been preserved and handed down as heritage through the efforts of selfless seers and sages. Each generation draws inspiration and knowledge from the previous ones, especially from the pathfinders, the pioneers and bridgebuilders in the regions of ethics, law, mysticism, sociology and religion. These persons promote concord and progress and remove social conflict; their footprints mark out the lines of individual and social development. So an enormous debt of gratitude has to be repaid to them. The sages and seers have handed down a precious quantity of knowledge about nature, about consciousness and also about the means and methods of testing and enlarging that knowledge. But today man is neglecting this heritage and even discarding it as invalid and superfluous. This is suicidal. Man has to preserve this knowledge and foster it, revere it and use it. That is the way to repay the debt to the (sages).