Passage 11

In English

The vision and the world

In the worship of the deities during every day one of them should be worshipped, not externally but with one's heart and soul. Bodily actions are ephemeral. The body derives its value from the spirit within. Hence it should be regarded as a sacred temple. Today, students develop many undesirable qualities like pride, envy and hatred even before they join college. With such polluted minds they view the world in dark colours. This may be illustrated by an episode from the . One day, summoned and and asked them to make a study of the people in the kingdom. He asked to find out how many good people existed in the country. He asked to find our how many bad people were there in the kingdom. went round and reported that he could find no good man anywhere. If them was any good man, that was himself, he said. reported to that he could find no bad man anywhere in their Dharmik (virtuous) kingdom. He could find some badness only in himself.