Passage 2

In English

Purity of heart is essential for spiritual wisdom

To develop such a spiritual outlook and to inspire it in others, one has to possess (purity of heart). Spiritual wisdom can dawn only when there is purity of heart. Just as removal of weeds, tilling the land, sowing the seeds and watering them, are required before the crop can be harvested on a plot of land, the field of the human heart has to be cleared of bad thoughts and bad feelings, watered with love, tilled by spiritual practices and the seeds of the divine Name sown. Only then one is entitled to reap the harvest of (Divine Wisdom). Today the spiritual exercises are confined to listening to talks and not to practising the teachings. Listening has become a kind of disease. Merely after listening, men go about bragging that they know everything. This crazy boastfulness is deepening men's ignorance. One should ruminate over what has been heard. After rumination, one should do (put into practice the lessons). Only then there is the triple purity of thought, word and deed. Today people are content with mere listening to discourses. This will not lead to Realisation. referred to the practice of "" (repeated writing of the Lord's Name as a spiritual exercise). This practice promotes harmony in thought, word and deed (first thinking about-the Name of the Lord, then uttering it and then writing it). All these three processes should be carried out with a pure heart.