Passage 12

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In plain words

He mocks the very ones who taught him. They do harm to the very ones who did them good. This is not education. Good for good, and good even for harm, is what one must do. To do good to one who does you good is no greatness. Do good to the one who does you harm. That is what students must learn today. No one should be hated. Today the principle of Prema must be made to grow. One must try to win victory in the battle called life. What is this victory? One must become an ideal student. Serve your mother and father. Only after that, enter into society. Serve everyone in society and make them content. There is a great deal that you young people need to learn. First of all, Ahaṅkāra must be pressed down. Hot blood sets off at great speed. In this society, people lose the discernment of what is good and what is bad. What we have is one tongue. With it one must use one word. To call a thing right and then call the same thing wrong is like a snake with two tongues. It becomes full of poison.

If you satisfy God, the whole world is satisfied

You must go on winning the fine name, ‘You are learned, virtuous, courageous, given to sacrifice, pure of heart, selfless.’ If you satisfy God, the whole world becomes satisfied. You saw it the other day. ‘Gōrā Kumbhār’ was its name. Repeating the Name of God and treading the clay for making pots, lost in absorption, he trod his own son into the clay and killed him. That is, through the thought of God he forgot his own body. In the end he came to know his fault. Knowing it, did he blame God at all? No! On the contrary: “O Raṅgā! The giver is You, the taker is You! Both powers, of giving and of taking, are in You alone; all of us are puppets,” he said, and made peace with it. With that feeling he kept his mind under control.