Passage 3

In English

Offer God the eight flowers of virtue

The sixth flower is (austerity). does not mean-forsaking wife and children and escaping into the loneliness of the forest. The real austerity is the exact co-ordination between one's thought, word and deed. The evil man can never achieve this; he behaves falsely to his own self. When man succeeds in this , the words he utters will have such power that what he says will be transformed into . Then, we have the seventh flower, (meditation). Today, there are in vogue as many systems and methods of as there are hairs on my head. Every one describes it according to his own whim and fancy. Sitting quiet and transferring their emotions and feelings to God is no . They must transmute their emotions, desires, feelings with the help of God into Divine qualities. They should not bring God down to their level; they must raise themselves to the level of God.