Passage 14

In English

At first, they should enquire whether the desires and the ambition which they have, are those which they need and are good for them. Unable to have the discriminating power, they develop desires which they should not develop. When such desires are not fulfilled, they begin to accuse God and put the blame on Him. Such people feel very happy if they get what they want and are constantly giving trouble and harm to other people. Such people always look down but they never look up. Without taking any trouble and without making any effort, they want to get things which do not belong to them. How can people, who have such bad qualities, ever take a path which is beneficial and healthy? Truly, young people like you should recognise the two great and sacred qualities of morality and sacrifice. So long as we hanker after things which are material and which are around us, our condition will be like what it is. We should make an attempt to understand and enquire into questions like, who is man? What is the purpose for which he has come into this world? We keep on talking about sacrifice. We repeat the words and , but do not really practise them. We pretend to have faith in God. We keep on expressing and announcing that we have faith in God. If really you have faith in God, you will not do such things. Whatever one does, appears to be done only for the purpose of promoting his own selfish interest or the selfish interest of his own family. He has a narrow mind and has not got in his mind the aspect of selfless work and wanting to do something useful for others.