I feel the need to integrate my scattered life. I feel to bind myself to the Lord! How? In what way am I to integrate and build my life? It is then that I lay down three disciplines-sadhanas- for myself.
The first discipline: Live in silence. Be away from the din and drone of this world. Build your life in silence.
At that time I was living in a small town. A few sisters and brothers had collected money and gave it to me. It totalled up to rupees three thousand. I handed over the money back to them with the words: Build a hall where men and women can sit in silence and meditate.
The municipality of that town granted them a free plot of land to build the hall for meditation. I further requested them to build a small wash room with a water tap inside the place. The house I lived in, did not have a water tap. If the hall had a wash room I could bathe in there. Till now I bathed and washed my clothes under the tap in the open. I prayed to Lord, that I may continue this life of simplicity.
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