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1.01 Those who are not spiritually-minded while they live in the world
can never be spiritually-minded when they retire from the world.
1.02 Unless we have sown the seed of spiritual life in our soul, there is
no possibility of creating the spiritual instinct in later life.
1.03 One has to begin as early as possible with one’s spiritual life,
whatever the worldly-minded may say. The cleverness of all such worldly
people is just like that of the crow. It thinks itself terribly clever and
worldly-wise, but eats filth and dirt all the same. Worldly people always
tell you that there is plenty of time for you to take up spiritual life. First
enjoy your youth, and then, in old age, there will be time enough to do
your practice and lead a spiritual life. And then, when you grow old, you
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find that the old impressions have become so deep that there is no
possibility of effacing them, that you have be-come slaves of your impulses
and instincts and old impressions and can no longer act in the way you
would like to, cannot take up a higher and purer life, neither mentally nor
physically.
1.04 Our ideal in life is to make a beginning of liberation in this very life
and to make the best use of the time that is given to us.