Passage 20

In English

She was waiting for a good opportunity to teach her husband a lesson and when the opportunity came one day, she prepared bread with the same rotten wheat flour and put it in her husband’s plate when he came to eat. He was very angry and very excited. She used good and soft words and she explained to her husband by saying that whatever work is done, the consequences of such work will have to be accepted by us either in heaven or in hell. The kind of seed which we plant, will determine the nature of the plant that will come out. She said, “The kind of gift which you are giving these days is very bad, and the consequences of such wicked acts of yours will take you to hell, and there they will undertake to give you this kind of bread. When such a situation comes about, you will have to eat such rotten bread for the first time. It will be difficult for you to do so, and it is better to accustom yourself to eating rotten bread from now on. For you, to get good bread at that time will be impossible. In order to give you that practice, from now onwards I am giving you such bread.” The work that we do today will determine the consequences that we will enjoy in the future. You must do good work and get good out of it. Can we plant the seeds of lemon and expect to get mangoes? Can we expect to plant the seeds of mango and get lemons out of that tree? It is right conduct for a human being to recognise this and promote sacred ideas, sacred thoughts and do sacred work now, so that he may reap the sacred fruit in future.