Passage 6

In English

However-wealthy, powerful or knowledgeable one may be, if he fails to bring his senses under control he will not be able to make purposeful and worthy use of his power or position. One who is a slave of his senses is displaying his animal qualities. One who controls his senses demonstrates the sacredness of the human birth. It is to develop the divine qualities in man and promote his purity in thought, word and deed that and have to be performed. Among the good qualities which man has to cultivate, the most important is (sacrifice). is ordinarily equated with charity or generosity. There is a great difference between charity and real sacrifice. Giving away things like land, cows, gold, food or knowledge represents only an attempt to share with others what you have. By gifts of these kind one does not lose much. In fact many of those who are born in poverty and misery in this life are suffering the consequences of not exercising charity in previous lives. The (moral sciences) have laid down that the affluent should share their wealth with the have-nots. This kind of sharing is an inherent obligation of man, according to the . (compassion) and (one-ness) towards all being have been regarded as two eyes for a man.