Passage 11

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In plain words

It shows the qualities on another. It shows beauty on yet another. So this watch is the very form of Satyaṃ Śivaṃ Sundaraṃ. Sundaraṃ gives adornment. Satyaṃ nourishes the human quality. Śivaṃ is ever-present. That is Time. So all the Upaniṣads too: “For those who have taken refuge in the Lord of Time, what can Time do?” We cannot bring Time under our control, but we experience the principle of Time within our control. Everyone must follow Time, but Time follows no one. The Paramātma is the embodiment of Time, so they called Him Śiva. That is why: “Kālāya namaḥ, Kālakālāya namaḥ, Kāladarpadamanāya namaḥ, Kālasvarūpāya namaḥ, Kālaniyamitāya namaḥ.” All is Time. In daily life, whenever you look at this WATCH you wear on your body, when you think, I am the embodiment of the five prāṇas, the five-letter mantra, Satyaṃ Śivaṃ Sundaraṃ, the word of the Upaniṣad, there will be no room for you to take any wrong path.

So we must try to teach human values to all the little children in this gentle way. We must not think we have done our time by teaching alone. We must not think our work is done. We too must put them into practice. Today, for ten years now, we have been teaching these human values, but we do not practise them. So first of all we, the ones who teach, must watch how far we practise them. When I tell others, I must watch whether I am doing it. That is self watch. Today the whole world takes practice as its basis; it takes no account at all of sermons and publicity. Those who give lectures are there by crores upon crores. We teachers can all go to the municipal people and the corporation people and easily tell those teachers. But those teachers are by no means brainless. They will watch how far the one who tells them walks by it. So this watch is not on the hand alone; it is everywhere. God too is a watchman. He too watches what each one is doing. So we must take care not to fall into the Ahaṅkāra of thinking we are some officials, all of us teaching others. We tell others a hundred things, don't we? We must ask ourselves, are we watching even one? Without practice, go on preaching for another thousand years: it is of no use. This Kali age is no time to be changed by publicity. This Kali age is not one to be changed by sermons.