In this world of delusion the net gain is the credit balance of fortitude and patience against nagging Fortune—the which is come by free will. To avoid duties because they are irksome and to accept them because they are pleasurable are both wrong. Man’s ties with father and mother, brother and sister, house and homestead, neighbours, countrymen, relatives, near and distant acquaintances, friend and foe, good and evil, are all debts incurred from actions as determined by Fate. The question of individual responsibility is irrelevant in that everyman is bound by debt owing to the stage of resultant good and evil having been set by Fate. Bear with all these irritations as best as you can. The creditors try to realise their dues, each using his own tacties. What good depriving them of their dues by retirement into the forest or even under the gravestone?? If unpaid, the dues are carrried over for realisation, by instalment, from birth to birth, ad infinitum. Even the repetition of the Holy Name, austerities, unitive practices, and rites and ceremonies, when resorted to for avoiding the dread of harrowing fortune, would swell your debt by compound interest/ instead of releasing you from the debtors prison. With your conscience clear, try your best to earn and spend according to the demands of the times and the needs of your family and to keep doing your duties with unconcern about the result, favourable or unfavourable. In betwetn, make time to recite, according to your ableness, the Holy Name of your cherished God-head. Thus will your devotional practices bear fruit, leading you to eternal freedom. Incessant penance is the practice of Patience for complete detachment, which is the means to deliverance from the body. So affirm the Holy scriptures in respect of sages, saints, hermits. The Allmighty God does bear with all, showing neither indifference to nor displeasure with any; hence He is called His Majesty the Lord. His devotees gather strength from Him in this wise (by living in His unity with all). If aloofness is sacrificed for attachment, man is harassed by being thrown amidst the waves of delusory involvements, caused by the clashes. of creatureliness, so that he must needs have pleasure and pain from the experiences, good and evil, as released by Fate. And from such God recedes far away.
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