॥॥
॥॥
In plain words
They themselves become our true gurus. So in this machine called our body there are so many things for us to learn. This body is simply what enters into activity. It is the chief vessel of karma. Whatever karma we have to perform, proper strength and ability are essential for the body. So we must first of all keep the body healthy. The head is not special just because it is above. We must not think the legs low just because they are below. The close bond between these two is our principle of Prema. Only when we spread this principle of Prema from the toenails to the crown of the head does our life become full. So we must bring all the thoughts the head has made into experience as action. Such bonds of kinship as there are in the limbs are everyday experiences to us. Such everyday experiences too are essential to the world.
You may think that we started these human values some five or six years ago. I began this fifty years back. While I lived in Karaṇam Subbamma's house, I would sing a song in the bhajan.
With Satya, Dharma, Śānti and Prema, carry on your journey of daily life, O jīva; do not let go your hold on the Dharma of nature; karma yoga is the Dharma of birth; remembrance is the secret of human birth; sādhana is the essential mark of devotees. (With Satya …)
Here the song set forth our heart as a wide field. It took our mind itself as the plough. It took the qualities as the bullocks. It took Viveka as the goad. It taught us to cultivate this field of the heart. What is the crop we grow in it? Satya, Dharma, Śānti and Prema: this is the crop we grow.
Bhakti is the rain, feeling is the weeding, Brahmānanda is the crop that ripens. (With Satya …)
So what must we do today? ‘The mind the plough, the qualities the bullocks’: keeping this plough called the mind under control, yoking the bullocks called the qualities and taking up the goad called Viveka, we must grow the crop of Prema within this heart.