Passage 10

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In plain words

To reach this goal we must nourish good saṅkalpas. Even if we do no sādhana of any kind, we must nourish good saṅkalpas, enter the good path, join satsaṅga and make our birth fruitful. The body is like a bubble of water. Who can tell at what moment, and where, it will collapse, where it will fall away! So we must shape our saṅkalpas into good ones at every turn. To the man who has good saṅkalpas everything comes into his own hands. All the karmas we do are the very forms of saṅkalpas! If there is no saṅkalpa at all, everything becomes a void. Of the whole world they have said, ‘The first saṅkalpa of Hiraṇyagarbha is the chief thing; that is its basis.’ So it is very necessary to shape our saṅkalpas into sacred ones. Keeping bad saṅkalpas within, we may act good on the surface. Or our outward conduct may look wicked while we shape the saṅkalpas within as sacred. This is of no use. In mind, in speech and in deed, in all three, there must be unity. So the saṅkalpa that is joined with such purity of all three is the chief good saṅkalpa. Only then does one take shape as a whole man. The proper study of mankind is man. Mankind means the unity of the three, our mind, speech and action. In the world many diversities are seen. We must recognise unity in this diversity. We must taste the Ānanda that is in this unity. Only then do we become ones who have understood divinity. Today, not recognising the unity that is in the many, we make unity into the many.

We must put bad saṅkalpas far away

In whatever country, in whatever age, every man is living a life full of sorrow.