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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
The snail climbs two inches in a day and descends 18 inches in night but some of you climb two inches and come down two inches. How would they climb one foot, six inches, four inches or even two inches on the whole.
When you come in contact with the saintly persons, listen to their preachings and read good books then you are zealously inspired to earn religious merits but then suddenly indolence, sluggishness, indifference dawn upon you and you postpone your practice of religion. This your conduct is analogous to the conduct of a snail climbing two inches in day time and coming down again two inches in night time.
TRIAL BALANCE OF LIFE-TIME
On year ending you prepare trial balance of your capital. You try to realise your profits and loss. Why do you then not prepare balance statement of your life. You certainly should try to ascertain debits and credits. You should debit the time spent by you in bathing and washing, in eating and drinking, walking and wandering, in sleeping, in enjoying, in bragging, in hating, in playing and sporting, in theatricals, in quarrels, in sickness etc. You should credit the time invested in the company of the saintly persons, in hearing the religious preachings, in spiritual studies, in devotion and prayers, in the acts of benevolence and practice of righteousness. Put your figures accurately and you will know the real position.
A trader whose capital is getting emaciated and debts aggravated becomes insolvent. His reputation is lost and businessmen as you are need not be taught in this respect. If your business dealings lead you to insolvency beware and mind your affairs carefully. The authors of the scriptures lay down specifically :
"The time invested in spiritual studies and religious acts should be deemed as fruitful while the rest of the life-time is
the cause of worldly existences”. Here in the context by the phrase "Spiritual studies and religious acts” you should mean all religious acts like worships etc. by implication. The time invested in such acts of religion weaken the rigidity of Karmic bondages and so such time is fruitful and the
