Passage 10

In English

If we want to read a sacred text, then sleep may overtake us. On the other hand, if we want to go and participate in a sacred gathering, the mind will not permit it and even if the body goes, the Goddess of sleep, will bother you there also. This may be described as a state of nothingness. If we are reconciled to this and want to go to sleep and take rest, all kinds of disturbing ideas and thoughts keep agitating your mind and these will pull your mind into the street. This has been described as a state of diverse thinking. The more important state is the state of concentration. Only when man takes to this state and concentrates on things and forgets the other two aspects, can he be happy. It is enough, if man can learn how to live like a man. He need not become a and rise to the level of divinity. The aspect of concentration is particularly important for students.