Passage 12

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In plain words

First Try to Know the Human Qualities

Man today cannot know even his own humanness. Man cannot know even the human values that are in man. Then how can he know the divine qualities? It is some hundreds of thousands of years since man was born. But humanness has not yet been born. The day humanness is born in man, the day he sees humanness in man, then alone can he see Divinity in man. If he cannot recognise even the human qualities in man, how will he recognise the divine qualities? Can the woman who cannot leap up to the hanging shelf fly up to heaven? He is unable to know even his own human qualities. How will he come to know the divine qualities? First we must try to know the human qualities. Then alone are the divine qualities easily understood. First we must learn by what path the great souls came to know God. Only then will all the children gain purity of feeling. Selfless Prema will grow. They will live free of care.