3 as one book - Kirpal Singh

2 0 SELF-INTROS PECTIONthe kindness of the universe and contrarily a vicious ideawill create a vicious circle by accepting all vice in theuniverse. A mango sapling will attract all the sweetnessof the soil whereas if a pepper seed is sown a little apartit will attract all its bitterness; both the plants will flourishwith the varying elements of Mother Nature, yet onthe same soil. One is full of all sweetness and the otherof all bitterness. That is the Eternal Law. Human heartis the soil in which good and bad thoughts are the seeds,which when sown carefully are sure to be grown graduallyby honest and correct cultivation. You are to choosethe best virtues for acceptance and inculcating in yourlife, when you can expect a bumper crop in due course.You are free to some extent and can benefit from thislimited liberty by hard work, right living and regulateddiscipline. Just learn to implant lofty ideas in your subconsciousmina and feed them with the waters of selfconfidence,determination, diligence and adaptability.Stick to your guns. Never stoop low, never and still never.Stand aloof with your sublime principles of life whichwill stand by you in the hour of need.'"Hence it is, that mystics of all traditions have beenuntiring in their stress of the need for absolute selfsurrender.It was this cross of sacrifice of the self, the ego,of which Jesus spoke when he exhorted his disciples tobear their cross daily. For in every little act, word, orthought, the ego is seeking to dominate us and if theseeker is to triumph over it, he must be prepared tocrucify it every m~rnent.~'To fall in sin is manly, but to remain there is devilish.