Passage 11

In English

Service to the Lord brings lasting happiness

You should avoid following the body or the mind and follow only the Conscience. The purpose of life is to help others and not to indulge in sensuous pleasures. From dawn to dusk, you are engaged in acts for the sake of maintaining your bodily comforts. What have you achieved by this? Only mental unrest and physical weariness or illness. Your aim must be to achieve Divinity. questions his own mind in a song whether wealth or service to the Lord will give (comfort) and comes to the conclusion that service to the Lord brings lasting happiness. Service involves (sacrifice). You should sacrifice that which you consider very dear to you. Sacrifice brings about real communion with the Divine while carnal pleasure results only in disease. Control of the mind alone will lead to union with the Divine. This day is celebrated as as started on the first day of . It represents both and (comfort and auspiciousness). Power or wealth cannot confer both. You must use the time well for the benefit of all. As you think, talk and act, so will be the results. Think of God and do good deeds by way of service to society, chanting the name of God. Embodiments of Love! Love is God. Start the day with love. Fill the day with love and end the day with love. Live in love. There is no need to fear. It is only a mental creation. Foster love. Then only Divinity can be realised.