Passage 9

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In plain words

That itself is the true rāga. If there is no sacrifice, if there is no change in feeling, the whole of life goes to waste. In the mandirs pūjās and japa keep going on every day. Gatherings keep going on. Along with this you must do sādhanas. You must take part in works of service. Wherever there are slums, you must go there and make them clean. Only then will you have gained real health. Not only that, you will have brought health to society. Hoping that you will take part in any work, however small, as far as you are able, and give it its proper worth, I bring My long discourse to a close.

Above all, now that you have built mandirs, you must do service as a path bound up with paropakāra. What does paropakāra mean? Para upakara. Para: divinity; upa: near; kara: go. Near to what? Go near to divinity, near to sacred feelings. That itself is paropakāra. If we say, ‘We have given some gift or other, some charity,’ that is not paropakāra. We must go near to the Supreme Principle. That itself is true paropakāra. Hoping that this is the right sādhana for humanness, that in this way people turn their minds to the right mind, foster divine feelings and, as their age grows, keep growing in feeling too, fostering sacrifice and lessening disease, and blessing you, I bring My discourse to a close.