In English
Life is granted to spend in as duty
Embodiments of Love! I wish very much that you should fill your hearts with love and lead the children under your care along the path of Indian ideals. For this you have to form study groups in order to collect and codify your suggestions. You must analyse and examine the principles underlying the Abhyudhaya scheme and store enough of ideas during these ten days to help you to plan things for the next ten months. Time is most important. This body is given to us in order to use it efficiently every minute of its existence. Work has been visualized in all its details so that every moment of the assigned time can be made worthwhile by carrying out the selfless work of implementing the given scheme. Human life has been granted to us in order to spend it in (action), as duty. In fact time is to be considered Divine, and adored as such. God is described as (He who is the Lord of Time), (He who is beyond time) and (He who teaches the principle of time). So do not waste precious time in wandering about; outside the camp, imagining that you have come here to somehow spend ten days at . Participate for your share in the seminars and in the study groups. Place before others your doubts and try to get them resolved. Spend your time in the company of others, not in gossip but in fruitful discussion. Even after you go to your village, take the children out for social service once or twice a week and help them to discard laziness. Laziness produces rust which in time turns man to dust. If man wishes to be happy and healthy, the first exercise he must do is to remove from his mind every bad thought, feeling and habit. What is the next step? He must welcome good thoughts, good feelings and good habits. These exercises can be started even from childhood. Removing the bad and substituting it with the good has to be done by you as a teacher for your students. You must be vigilant to prevent the children from being spoiled by the evils of injustice, violence, immorality and falsehood. This is the '' (penance) imposed on you as your duty. These ten days you must collect enough courage and inspiration to undertake this . You need not go in for any other spiritual exercise. Dedicate all your skill, strength and scholarship to this great (sacrificial rite). Dedicated is the . Let this of selfless discharge of work become the practice all over this land.