In English
The work that you do in the spiritual sphere and the work that you do in the material sphere might appear to be the same, but in reality when we look at it in some depth, we find that they take two different paths. There is one small example for this: For a diabetic patient there appears a boil on his hand and this boil becomes worse and ultimately it leads to gan grene. In such a case, the doctor will advise that the hand should be amputated. If his hand is not amputated, the gangrene will spread to the rest of the body and will cause great harm. For the sake of safety of the total body, the patient should be prepared to get his hand amputated at that point. In another situation, when one is wearing beautiful golden bangles on one’s hand, a thief may come and try to take away the golden bangles. If he cannot get them off the hand, he will want to cut the hand at a point and take away the bangles from the hand. Here we see that the doctor has used the knife to cut a hand and the thief has also done the same thing. Both of them apparently seem to have done the same thing, but what the doctor has done is helpful and what the thief has done is harmful. There is another example for this. Owing to some wickedness, a person will go and set fire to the house in which others are living, and the house will burn down. The same kind of destruction by fire was also done by in . He destroyed all the houses and mansions in by setting fire to them. Here the work that was done by and the work done by a wicked individual appear to be the same, but what had done has caused benefit and what the wicked man had done has caused harm. Although these tasks appear to be the same when we look at them superficially, yet because of the mental attitude that we have before these words are uttered and the action taken, the results may be different.