In English
Death is sweeter than the blindness of ignorance
God is the embodiment of Love. If you wish to experience God, you have to fill yourselves with love. Through Love alone can you experience the embodiment of Love that is God. The man filled with jealousy and hatred is like a blind man who cannot see the sun however brightly he may shine. He cannot see God however near God may be. Blinded by ignorance, the man filled with jealousy and hatred cannot hope to see God, like a blind man groping for something which is near him. The man filled with good qualities like truth, love, absence of jealousy, ego and hatred, can see God without searching for Him. He becomes a (a man of spiritual wisdom). It has been well said: Death is sweeter than the blindness of ignorance. Students, who have to develop their character and conduct during their youth, should give no room for evil traits like jealousy. They must feel happy when other students do well in studies or sports. To feel jealous towards a student who has come first is a threefold offence. The first offence is one's neglect of studies; the second offence is to entertain jealousy towards the better student; and the third is to lament over one's own failure. Students should not have such narrow ideas. They should learn a lesson from 's fate. Because of his hatred and jealousy towards the , he brought about the complete ruin of himself and his family.