There are five fingers in every hand. If each finger points towards its own peculiar direction, how can the hand hold or manipulate any article? If they come together and stay together, the hands can accomplish whatever they plan. Similarly, when one of you turns your head away at the sight of another, and ten people insist on ten diverse directions, how can any deed be done? You must all be equally alert, active and cooperative. Why must you compete and quarrel? Nothing in this world can last as such for long. Buddha diagnosed this correctly. He declared, “All is sorrow; all is transient; all are but temporary contraptions of ephemeral characteristics.” Why should you be as fatally fascinated by these finite things? Strive to gain the eternal, the infinite, the universal. One day, you must give up the body you feed and foster. How long can you keep all that you have earned and possessed with pride? Trivial thoughts and desires award only sorrow; holy thoughts and desires award divine peace! – Divine Discourse, May 1981.