In English
Nature is the best text book
I have often said that Nature is the best text-book for one and all. Many valuable things can be learnt from the behaviour of wind, which sustains life by respiratory process and is all pervading. To exercise the power of discrimination, man is endowed with (the intellect). The intellect has to be unwavering and steady Man fails to use this discriminating power properly and fully because of his qualities of and (attachment and aversion), his obliviousness to his inherent divinity and his preoccupation with mundane desires. If these tendencies are removed, the intellect will come into its own as an instrument of discrimination. The intellect is the highest among man's endowments starting with the body. Above the body are the senses. Subtler than the senses is the mind. The intellect is subtler than the mind. Above the intellect and much more subtle is the (Self). Because of its proximity to the , the is very subtle.