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THE
DUTIES OF THE HUMAN LIFE
Certainly,
the capital of life and human
faculties was given to man to
spend on the duties mentioned
above. If this is so, then, O my
foolish carnal self and O my
friend full of desires! do you
think that your life’s duty is
restricted to living an easy
life according to the requisites
of modern corrupt civilization
and gratifying your carnal
desires? Those delicate senses
and abilities, those sensitive
faculties and organs, those
well-ordered members and
systems, and those inquisitive
senses and feelings were
included in the “machine” of
your life-our body. Do you
suppose it was in order that you
should use them only to satisfy
the low desires of your base,
carnal self? Rather, they were
included in your body and made a
part of your nature for the
following two basic aims:
First,
they should make you feel all
the varieties of the bounties of
the Real Giver of Bounties and
urge you to offer Him thanks.
So, you should feel them and
perform the worship of thanking
Him in return for them.
Second,
they should make known to you
and urge you to experience each
sort of all the manifestations
of the Divine Sacred Names
manifested in the universe. So,
you should experience and know
them in order to believe.
It
is through achievement of these
two basic aims that a man can
gain human perfection and become
a true human being.
A
parable to understand that man
was not given his human
faculties only to earn his
worldly life through them:
Someone
gave one of his servants twenty
pieces of gold, telling him to
buy himself a suit of clothes
made out of a particular cloth.
The servant went and bought
himself a fine suit out of the
best quality of the cloth, and
put it on.
The
same person gave another of his
servants a thousand pieces of
gold, and putting in his pocket
a piece of paper with some
things written on it, sent him
to do some trade. Now, anyone
with any sense would know that
that capital was not for buying
a suit of clothes. Since the
first servant had bought a suit
of finest cloth with twenty gold
pieces, of course these thousand
gold pieces were not to be spent
on a suit. Assume the second
servant did not read the paper
in his pocket and, imitating the
first servant, gave all the
money to a shopkeeper for a suit
of clothes. Assume further that
he got a suit of the worst kind
of cloth, one fifty times worse
than his friend’s. For sure
his employer would reprimand him
severely for his utter
stupidity, and punish him
angrily.
O
my carnal self and my friend!
Come to your senses! Do not
spend the capital of your life
and your vital potentials on
material pleasures and this
transient life. Otherwise,
although you are fifty times
superior with regard to the “capital”
than the most developed of
animals, you will fall fifty
times lower than the lowest.
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