Passage 10

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In plain words

It is not possible at all. If you plant a mango seed and want a lime, will you get it? It will not come. If you plant a neem seed and want a mango, will it come? No; neem fruits alone will come. So in human life we must do karmas that are sacred, that seek the welfare of the country and that give joy to many. One small matter. You must not take it in a different way. Last year our Prime Minister, P. V. Narasimha Rao, resolved to retire from politics and to pass his time peacefully in body and in mind. He made all the arrangements for it. He never hoped that he would become Prime Minister. He made no efforts for it. But it chose him of its own accord. Of itself it sought him. Such fortunes do not come by buying them.

Ask for nothing, O mind, knowing that the more you ask, the lower it sinks, and that if you do not ask, the work is quickly done. (Ask for nothing…) Did He not cherish Śabarī, who never asked? Jaṭāyu, who died asking nothing for himself: did He not go to him at the last and grant him a blessed end? (Ask for nothing…)