Worship is just a means
of educating the emotions.
Human impulses and emotions
have to be guided and controlled.
Just as the raging waters
of a river have to be curbed by bunds,
halted by dams, tamed by canals and led
quietly to the ocean, which can swallow
all floods without a trace,
so too the age long instincts
of man have to be trained and
transmuted by contact with higher ideals and powers.
When the fruit is ripe,
it will fall off the branch of its own accord.
Similarly, when renunciation saturates your heart,
you lose contact with the world and slip into the lap of the Lord.
divinely sent
