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THE DIVINE INSTRUCTIONS 4. The man replied: “We scarcely know the meaning of that We toil to live, and hope for nothing else but toil, and biess the day we can cease our toil and lay down and rest in Buddha’s city of the 5. And Jesus’ heart was stirred with pity and with love for poor toilers, and He said: 6. “Toil should not make a person sad; men should be : when they toil. When hope and love are back of toil then all of life i filled with joy and peace, and this is heaven. Do you not know that: a heaven is for you?” ia 7. The man teplied: “Of heaven we have heard; but when it is far away, and we must five so many lives before we reach that piace! 8 And Jesus said: “My brother man, your thoughts are wrong: your heaven is not far away, and it is not a place of metes and bounds, 3s not a country to be reached; it is a state of mind! 9. Allah never made a heaven for man; He never made a bell; we are creators and make our own. 10. Now, cease to seek for heaven in the sky; just open up the windows of your hearts, and, like a flood of light, a heaven will come and bring a boundless joy; then the toil will be no crue} task.” 11. The people were amazed, and gathered close to hear this strange young master speak. . ; 12. Imploring Him to tell them more about the Father God, Aflab about the heaven that men can make on earth, about the boundless joy. 13. -And Jesus spake a parable; He said: “A certain man possessed a field; the soil was hard and poor. 14. “By constant toil he scarcely could provide food to keep his family from want. 15. “One day a miner who could see beneath the soil, in passin on his way, saw this poor man and his unfruitful field. 16. “He called the weary toiler and said: ‘My brother, know you not that jnst below the surface of your barren field rich treasures li concealed ? 17. ‘You plow and sow and reap in a scaniy way, and day by day you tread upon a mine of gold and precious Stones. 18, ‘This wealth lies not upon the surface of the ground; but if you will but dig away the rocky soil; and delve down deep into the earth, you need no longer till the. soil for naught.” 19. The man believed. ‘The miner surely imows,” ‘And I wii find the treasures hidden in my field.’ . 20. And then he dug away the rocky soil, and deep down in the earth he found a mine of gold.” 7 21. And Jesus said: “The sons of men are toiling hard on desert plains, and burning sands and rocky soils, are doing what their fathers did, not dreaming that they can do aught else. *. 2Z, Behold a master comes, and tells them of 2 hidden wealth; that underneath the rocky soil of carnal things are “treasures that no man & "can cotink, - . “7. 23, ‘That in the heart the richest gems abound; that he who wills may Opes. the door apd find thern all.” “ee * fawn Set aa f