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Dharnasha. What inner urge, what intense longing led this man to have this temple built in the forest? It cost thirteen lakhs of rupees to carry out repairs on this temple. You can well imagine what it must have cost to erect it. And yet, search as you will, nowhere in this magnificent edifice will you find inscribed the name of the man who gave to his vision a concrete shape in stone and marble. On one of the 1444 pillars of the temple there is a miniature carving of two figurines — a man and a woman, with their hands humbly folded on their breasts. Utter humility and devotion flow from their eyes, and their dumb lips seem to say, “What we have done is so insignificant compared to what we should like to do." “What comparison can there be between what little we have done and what we have received:” says the man who longs to make his soul one with his God.
Vision is an appetite. The man who is in quest of it feels restless till he acquires it. The true devotee of God seems an eccentric in the eyes of others because he is completely absorbed in this search within himself, quite intoxicated by this search for Truth.
Knowledge and Character by themselves, without Faith or Vision, are of no use. You first need to feel the ecstasy of this vision, so that you say to yourself,
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