Passage 3

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In plain words

Though the three hands of this clock move along the right path, he makes no attempt to recognise his own life rightly. Days: it takes thirty days to make one month. It takes twelve months to make one year. So years are made up of months. Months are made up of days. So what matters most is the day itself. So we must recognise the truth of the way in which we should live each day. But man today makes no attempt to recognise the truth of his daily life. He does pass his days, but how should he pass them? How should he live them? How should he understand this day? He makes no attempt to recognise this truth. But every single thing goes on happening by the will of God alone. Man makes no attempt to recognise this truth either. He acts heeding only his own selfishness, his own interest.

God's vision is the same for all

God does not use His power according to the wish of this individual. God keeps in view whatever the world, society and the family need. A wedding is taking place in a house. A downpour is about to break. ‘O God! Until the wedding in my house is over, You must not let this rain fall,’ he prays. The field of the man next door is drying up for want of rain. ‘O God! My crops are all drying up in the heat of the sun. Send down a downpour,’ he asks. God does not give in at all to individual wishes. Yet He gives Ānanda to those individuals according to the Bhakti and the surrender of each. But there is one thing we must recognise well. In every man there is a disease that no medicine in this world can cure.