Passage 13

In English

In respect of anything that you want to do, you must first of all be prepared to ask the question whether you have a right to do that. It is only when you clean your mind and prepare it to accept sacred things, should you undertake to put sacred things into it. You may have read many texts but so long as you do not put into practice what you have learnt, all your learning becomes useless. Whether they are the words that you utter or actions that you indulge in, they will all look as if they are emanating from a gramophone record or an automatic machine.