Passage 13

In English

You are listening to so many good discourses everyday. Those who are giving you the discourses are doing so with a pure heart, and those of you who are receiving them are also receiving them with a good and tender heart. But what is the result of all this? When we ask such a question, one does not find a good answer. During the period in which you listen to these discourses, they look very nice and attractive. But once you go out after listening to them, they do not appeal to you and you do not want to put them into practice. It is only when we can digest the food that we have taken on a particular day, can we again eat food the next day. If you eat something today and do not digest it till tomorrow, you will suffer from indigestion. Just as we should make an attempt to digest the food on the same day that we eat it, so, also, whatever ideas you listen to on a particular day should be absorbed and put into practice the same day. It is only when you take to such a path that you will be able to have a body and mind which are strong and sturdy.