Chapter II: Patience and Gratefulness
SENSATION OF TOUCH: When fire touches him, he flees away from it. This is the first attribute of animals without which they cannot go on. Nose has been created for man with which he takes smell. Then eyes have been created.for-him tb see things near an distant and ears to hear ajid-tofigue to taste. These things would not have been-sufFicient without the strength of perceptionjn-theTront portion of head. By its help, it is known vyiuehTfiing is bitter and which is sweet. Without it eyes would have seen a thing as yellow. Then you have been given intellect with the help of which you can understand everything. You can understand whether, a thing is beneficial or injurious at present and in future. The greatest intellect is Knowledge about God, His
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wonderful creations and his workings in the universe. Your five organs then work as police on behalf of the king-soul. Each of them has been assigned a special function to perform news of colour, voice, smell, taste, cold, heat and other attributes. These are the gifts on you arranged in order. Sight is a power and eye is its instrument. There are ten different screens in the eye circle, some are open, some are secret and some secret screens are woven like the spider's net. Some screens are dried, some are wet, some are white like egg and some screens are like ice. The form, mode, length and breadth of each screen of eye are different. If any attribute of a screen is mixed with that of another eye sight becomes curbed. This is true of only one organ. Now guess the wonderful creation of ear, nose and other organs.
GREED AND WILL: There are also different kinds of gifts in the creation of greed and will. There are many diseased men who do not take beneficial food owing to lack of greed. Things of greed are sought for and reprehensible things are hated. So God created in you greed for food and made it strong in you. It urges you to take food and thereby you remain alive. That gives rise in ;you sexual passion which preserves dynasty. You will be struck with wonder if you think and ponder how He created uterus, how a foetus comes into being out of mixture of the blood of menses and semen, how males and females are created, how semen comes out from the back of a male and mixes with the ovary of a female, how it becomes a lump of flesh, how head, hand, feet, belly, back and other organs of the body are formed.
All these are gifts of God.
ANGER: Greed is not alone sufficient for you and many injurious things are coming to you from all around. Therefore anger has been created in order to drive them off. It is not alone sufficient for future benefit and for that will has been created. It is guided by knowledge and intellect.
INSTRUMENTS OF STRENGTH AND MOVEMENTS:
The following are the instruments which give strength to the body as a result of which the different organs have got movements.