In this spiritual sphere of
mental peace and inner joy,
the responsibility for success
or failure is entirely one's own.
You have no right to shift
it on to others. The fire will
go out if the fuel is over;
so stop feeding it with fuel.
Do not add fuel to the fire
of the senses. Detach the mind
from the temporary and attach it to the eternal...
Plant the seedling of devotion,
namely, the preliminary exercise of
remembering the Lord's name, in the mind.
That will grow into a tree with
the branches of virtue, service,
sacrifice, love, equanimity, fortitude and courage.
You swallow food, but you are not
aware how that food is transformed
into energy, intelligence, emotion and health.
In the same way, just swallow
this food for the spirit, this remembering
of the Lord's Name, and watch how it gets
transmuted as virtue and the rest without your being aware of it.
divinely sent
