Passage 7

In English

Salt is salty; if it loses its saltiness, it is not salt. Fire must burn; if it does not, it is no longer fire; it is only cold coal, not hot embers. Chillies must taste hot; if they do not possess that characteristic and unique quality, they are not chillies. Each thing has a unique quality for which it exists. Man too has unique quality which marks him out from others. It is ', the capacity and the willingness to give up, renounce, sacrifice, He is endowed with that quality for a high purpose.