Here’s something to think about with all seriousness

Let’s get to a little more to clarify the matter and take the right course. Who is there to offer that education? The answer we received from the Mother expanding the above lesson. It’s something straightaway from her ‘Conscious Trance’.

As you say, if you can manage to bring a child’s life under some sort of discipline—reduce it to a certain pattern, its heady passion and excitement of youth are a good deal curbed, they are kept away. At that time of life the blood heaves up like a tidal wave, but the embankment has been built in such a way that it holds back the tide washing up against it. Why so? Well, the embankment has been firmly built. But if it isn’t there, when a youth feels passion, it swamps the bank. He can no longer resist.

The result is, if he comes to understand at all, it happens a good deal later. Huh, how brief is his remorse! He then says, what was to happen have happened. He was to act like that, so he has. What does it matter after all? But in the last hour, the cruel truth comes home. The last hour teaches the bitter lesson; it doesn’t pass without doing it. If one lives an orderly life, the last hour has no such lesson to teach.

If you don’t form the character from the very first, but try to form it getting maturity, how can it be at all possible! Form yourself in an ordinary way. If that is done, the extraordinary will come of it. The eternal will follow in the footstep of the extraordinary. There’s nothing to worry about. But if you turn your eyes towards the eternal all at once, what effect can it produce! That’s not wise at all. That’s a mistake.