Passage 10

In English

Although he had spent so much time in the jail, he did not realise that he should not come back into the prison. He was always committing wrong and coming back to the same place. This is the characteristic feature of . Truly, your life would be a waste, if there is no devotion in it. This category of is like the thief. It is like committing theft again and again and repeatedly going back to the prison. Man takes birth, wastes his life in useless things and takes birth again and repeats the same cycle. Truly, in because of different religions, our attitudes are also becoming very confusing. All the religions have been teaching only good things. No religion teaches us to speak untruth, or be unkind, or to disrespect our parents. The religions may be different with regard to the particular aspects of God about which we really do not know, but in regard to what we know or how we should conduct ourselves, all religions have been teaching the same thing. All religions have been telling the same thing, in relation to worldly conduct. All religions have agreed that it is good to be able to sing the glory of God. This kind of sacred bliss is the quality of the . All the noble qualities like speaking truth, loving others, etc., are generated from the as the source. It has become the fashion in this age of to give up what comes from the sacred . We accept and do things that are forbidden by . What has been forbidden by the is being accepted. In fact, this has become normal with people. Some others, in this modern age have been arguing, that there is nothing like religion. If man has no religion, he will become one without a mind. Students should recognise that everyone with a mind should have a religion. All the leaders who want to propagate that there is no religion end up creating a new religion. They do not recognise the truth that even to say that there is no religion is creating a new religion in itself. What we may call religion is something that comes from within. Religion is not a bundle of rituals by which we forbid people from doing this or that. Only when we can recognise this basic truth, it will be possible for us to lead good lives. There are many people who are following the wrong path. It is wrong to follow and imitate someone who is an ordinary human being. Today students must realise this. This aspect of imitation is a sign of weakness. There is a small example for this.