Passage 39

In English

Shun bad company. Seek good company. Only then will your life be redeemed. Very often, I remind the students that by joining bad company, you become slaves. You should be masters, not slaves. You all know what happened to on listening to the words of . No one loved more than . But when her intelligence was clouded, she believed the words of the wicked . To one with perverted intellect, truth appears as untruth and vice versa. Due to the effect of bad company, the mind gets polluted. So, right from the tender age, “” (run away from bad company, join good company, undertake righteous actions day and night, and enquire into that which is permanent and that which is ephemeral). One should not develop unnecessary contacts. Your interaction with others should be limited to basic courtesies like, “Hello, how are you?” Never disobey the command of God Embodiments of Love! You are under the false impression that today is the birthday of . He had neither birth nor death. He has neither beginning nor end. He is the eternal witness.