When you try to prepare a meal,
you may have with you all the materials
and ingredients you need but unless you
have the fire in the hearth, you cannot
cook and make an edible meal out of it.
So too with life, spiritual wisdom is
the fire which makes the material world
and the external activities, edible and
tasty, healthy and joyful.
That joy is uplifting, it is illuminating,
it is constructive. Life in the world is for
attaining salvation. That is to say,
life 'here' is for the sake of reaching 'there'
divinely sent
