A plantain tree has a number of uses: the

plantain leaf is used to serve a meal, its

flower in cooking, and the trunk is helpful
for binding and packing things as a good
string-yielding substance, but its main use
is in the bunch of bananas! You take all
the trouble of planting and growing the
tree for the sake of bananas, not its
leaves, strings, the inner soft core, or the
flower. So too, the main use of this
human body is the realisation of the
Divine, the rest is all incidental. You may
say, Oh the hands have so much to do!
Though you may use it for all purposes,
its chief purpose is to pray, to worship
God, to hold His Feet. Ears are designed
to hear Gods glory, and the eyes to
witness His manifestations! The tongue is
often misused to talk scandal, or flatter!
Use it as God willed it, to sing hymns of
Divine Glory. [Divine Discourse, Feb 21,
1971]
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