In English
One's actions decide one's destiny
The (sages) were sincerely selfless and earnest and so the purified the atmosphere, pleased the elements and propitiated God. One's actions, therefore, decide one's destiny. There is no use blaming others for our misfortune and misery. Nor is it right to blame God as being partial or cruelly unconcerned. When you plant a bitter seed, how can the fruit be sweet? It has become the fashion to claim all good as being one's own achievement and to ascribe all the despair and disappointment to an irresponsive attitude of Divinity. Some professors of University once ridiculed another of the same seat of learning for wasting ten minutes in the morning and ten in the evening in meditating on a non-existent God. He replied "Brothers, if God is, as you say, non-existent, I agree I am wasting twenty minutes every day. But if God exists, as many believe, I am sorry you are wasting your entire lives!" As a matter of fact, God alone Is; the changing world is what we have superimposed on the Divine Entity. Turn your vision away from the superimposition onto the base upon which it has happened through your ignorance. is the Samskrith word for beast, and has as its root. means, "that which sees only the outer world." When man is content to use his senses merely to enjoy the outer world, to what little extent he can, he is not living up to his real destiny. Even spiritual efforts, have been reduced to external rituals by man in all lands. Morning and evening, and on days set aside as holy, they do (ritualistic worship) with special pomp, heaps of flowers, rows of lamps and strings of loud (hymns). The impact of these rites is mostly thin and superficial.