AN ADMONITION

An Admonition ~ 53 ~ with such capabilities as help him to read those signs and understand them. Now those who keep their natural faculties alive and, by availing of them, ponder over the things of the world, will unlock the doors of realisation within themselves. While those who allow the intellect to become sluggish will be unable to learn lessons from anything. They will see, but this will not be the seeing of realisation; they will hear, but this will not be the hearing of realisation. In this present world everything that begins is heading towards its pre-destined end. For instance, a seed, once sprouted, starts its life as a tiny plant, then gradually develops into a sapling, then into a fully grown tree. The same is true of the things of this world. This happening serves as a divine lesson for man. In this way God tells man that he is, also heading from beginning to end: childhood followed by youth and old age. Afterwards death will lead us to a new and eternal existence.