In English
Offerings to God should be pure and sacred
What should be the qualities of the actions we offer at the Lotus Feet of the Lord? Before we offer anything to the Lord we must make sure that it is pure, befitting and sacred. Then it will be a worthy offering to the Lord. For example, if we want to offer a rose to the Lord, we first select a beautiful, fragrant bloom. Then we remove the insects from the flower. Next we remove the thorns or any imperfect leaves from the stem and in a number of other ways we make our offering as beautiful and pure as possible. Every action we perform should be like this. Our actions must be saturated with the fragrance of love and sacredness and must be good and pure. This is the true: of Action as laid down in the . It is in the field of action, or , that a man most patently reveals his character and the type of man he is. If we want to ascertain if a person is predominantly Satwic, Rajasic or Tamasic in nature, we need only to observe his actions; they will unmistakably reveal his nature.