Just as a thermometer indicates heat of the body, your talk, conduct, and behaviour indicate your mental equipment and attitudes and show how high is the fever of worldliness that afflicts you. These must be pure, untinged by passion of emotions like hate or pride. Talk in peace, promoting peace in others. What is the use of japa and dhyana, when your talk and conduct are not even human? How can you hope to approach the divine while grovelling in the slush of the bestial? Resolve this day to cleanse the mind of impurities, so that you can imbibe the inspiration it is intended to convey. Aspirants for mental peace must also reduce luggage they have to care for; the more the luggage, the greater the bother. Objective possessions and subjective desires – both are handicaps in the race for realisation. A house cluttered with lumber will be dark, dusty and without free movement of fresh air; it will be stuffy and suffocating. The human body too is a house; do not allow it to be cluttered with curios, trinkets, trash, and superfluous furnishings. Let the breeze of holiness blow as it wills through it; let not the darkness of blind ignorance desecrate it.