Man builds skyscrapers after undergoing training for years but a sparrow builds a strong nest with straws, beholding which one is wonderstruck. From where has it learnt the art? Similarly, besides having a valuable task, an elephant carries heavy logs of wood from one place to another. Birds and animals have no less merit. We have silkworms, colorful butterflies and some birds bearing figures on their feathers. But the life of no such species is termed invaluable; only human life has been so termed. But man does not realize this. Therefore, it is said that human life is wasted like cowries. The human life was valuable like a diamond but it was valued no more than cowries and he departed from this world empty handed. What was to be understood and lived up to. Thus man departs from the world without fulfilling the prime aim of life, hence the soul remains in the bondage of births and deaths. Therefore, Holy beings teach that realizing the real self is essential task which has to be accomplished well in time. Despite worldly achievements, man departs without gaining anything. Alexander, the Great, had so many achievements to his credit, yet he departed from the world empty handed. What is meant is that man remains entangled in ‘thorns’, in worldly pursuits. Holy beings, therefore, awaken man, who is totally engrossed in materialism, to know the reality, the truth.

Today, man is out to turn the earth into a hell. Tension, fear and suffocation prevail all around. Such an environment is prevailing everywhere in the world. There is a pollution which affects our health and causes diseases. There is another kind of pollution, affecting our mind and brain, which is also very harmful; it is like the dirt and disease which sicken the mind and lead to evils. While we have to cleanse the external pollution, we have also to guard against the mental pollution of any kind. We have to throw out the garbage of enmity, hatred, jealousy, greed, etc., and purify the mind, so that it imbibes noble thoughts and feelings. In this regard the words of the holy beings have been like a mirror before man but man turns a blind eye. Even if there is a mirror but if a person does not look into it, how can he see the reality, know the truth; how can he see the stains on his face or arrange his unkempt and tangled hair? The mirror plays its role but the eyes are shut. This is how man lives in the past and does today. Man likes the ways that cause pain to him, yet he adopts the same. It is like holding embers which burn one’s hand and still one feels happy at the glow of the embers and does not throw away the same. Thus he harms himself but has no realization. His state of mind is like that of an egoist about whom it is said:’An egoist hurts the one he loves, and that is himself’. Holy beings advice man to imbibe right understanding and refrain from causing harm to himself and to others.