CHAPTER 1 

MAN 

The Destiny of Man

1. You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? O man, because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
2. He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life.
3. A Man is rewarded according to his thoughts and motives. The Lord is like Kalpataru, the wish-yielding tree of heaven. Everyone gets from Him whatever he seeks. A poor man’s son, having received education and become a judge of High Court by hard work, is apt to think, “Now I am happy. I have reached the highest rung of the ladder. It is all right now.” To him the Lord says, “Do thou remain so.” But when the judge of the High Court retires on pension and reviews his past, he understands that he has wasted his life, and exclaims, “Alas, what real work have I done in this life!” To him the Lord also says, “Alas! What hast thou done!”