Passage 27

In English

Pray for the welfare of everyone. (May the entire world be happy!) God is the embodiment of happiness. Such happiness should be experienced by one and all. “Love all” can confer such happiness. When man cultivates love, the world will be free from all types of conflicts and wars. After the , during the last 5000 years, the world witnessed 11,000 wars. Even now, wars are being waged. The reason for this is that man is not able to understand his true nature thereby giving room to differences. He is being carried away by the feeling of mine and thine. When he is born, he does not bring even a small piece of cloth with him. When he leaves the world, he does not even give his address. Then what is there in the world that he can claim as his own? Nothing. So long as he is alive, he feels something as his. When he departs from the world, he does not know what will happen to all his possessions. Such being the case, why should he develop ego and attachment? It is sheer ignorance. Merit and sin are the only things that accompany him after his death. You are born because of the sins committed in previous births. You should undertake meritorious deeds in this birth so that you will never be born again. You should strive hard to attain liberation. How is it possible? So long as the husk is not removed from the paddy, it will germinate wherever it is sown. (to be born and to die again and again). Once the husk is removed, it will not sprout. (there is no more rebirth, i.e., ultimate liberation). So long as man is covered by the husk of or attachment, he is born again and again. Once the husk of attachment is removed, there is no rebirth for him. All spiritual practices are meant to remove this ‘husk’. Everyone has to make efforts in this direction. To make effort is your duty, success or failure is in the hands of God. In order to attain success, you have to do your duty. Without asking, even your mother will not feed you. Without knocking, the door will not be opened. Ask and be fed. Knock and the door shall be opened. Likewise, you should pray to God to grant you liberation. Today, though God Himself is coming closer to man, the man is distancing himself from God. There is no greater misfortune or sin than this. It is the result of sins accrued over past births. Never commit such a sin. Earn merit. Be closer to God. The exhort man thus: Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached. Man should wake up from the sleep of (ignorance) and visualize the sun of (consciousness). This is the teaching of every Upanishad. But few follow the instructions of the . The truth will be realized and experienced only when the instructions are followed.