Passage 7

In English

The flower is , the tender fruit is and the taste which gratifies is . The bud blossoms through devotion and the fruit emerges into virtue and ripens by the acquisition of the awareness of One. The three are inevitable ingredients. To give you a familiar example, the coconut you make at home has four ingredients: salt, chillies, tamarind and the kernel of the nut. To procure all these, clean and pure, in the required quantities, is , the path of action. To put them together and press them into a paste is also , part of the Path. Then, you put a little on the tongue to discover whether it tastes aright, as the genuine . This is the Path of . When you find that if a sprinkle of salt would make it authentic, you add it, at this stage. Or, if it is more, you mix with it some more saltless paste, until it is just right. And, you derive delight, as a reward. That is the stage of joy, of contentment, the end of desire, .