________________ slab of stone? A sculpture never adds any pebbles or cement to the slab. All he does is starts removing all that is extra and unnecessary. When all the extra and unnecessary part is removed, then a beautiful idol emerges from within. O! Parmatma! Please become a sculpture and start removing all that is unnecessary and extra in us. Start carving old stones like us and give us a beautiful shape, carve us into excellent images. Engrave us with your knowledge, faith, character and penance. Do you ever have such feelings, such yearning that Parmatma should carve you into beautiful idols? A stone can hurt, can an idol ever hurt? A stone on the road can become the cause of anyone stumbling or tripping over it but the same stone, when given to a sculpture, he makes a beautiful idol from it, can that idol hurt anyone or can anyone stumble over it? No! An idol can never ever hurt anyone. It is worth worshipping and revering. Why do we humans hurt others, kick others? We are still like those uncut stones, with quite a few negative qualities within us. Make one resolution in this life, "I do not want to hurt anyone and I do not want to kick anyone. Once, if all that is extra and unnecessary within me, is removed, if all my - 1762 =