The great Acharyas have said that everything discovered has a great goal; surrender yourself to that goal and act on it by drawing your inspiration from that goal, whereby you will get a new column of energy. Do not allow this energy to be dissipated in the futile memory of past regrets or failures, or in the excitement of the present, but bring that entire energy, focused, into activity, that is, into the highest creative action in the world outside, whereby the individual who was till now considered the most inefficient finds his way to the highest achievement and success. This can be said very easily in a second.
In order to train our mind to this attitude, considerable training is needed, because we have already trained our mind so wrongly that we have become perfect in imperfections. Not knowing the art of action, we have become master artists in doing wrong things, and the totality of such activity will indeed bring the country to a wrong end. If each individual is given a car to achieve an ideal socialistic pattern, and nobody knows driving but everybody starts driving, what would be the condition on the road?
Everybody has equal rights on the public roads. Then each car will necessarily dash against the other and there is bound to be chaos. There seems to be a very apt pattern of life that we are heading towards.
Every one of us is a vehicle. We know how to go forward. The intellect is very powerful, and everybody is driving, but nobody knows how to control the mental energy and direct it properly or guide it to the proper destination.
According to the passage, the country may perish because of
The country may perish because of deeds done without proper control of mental energy, so that is the answer.
The passage says that not knowing the art of action, we do wrong things.
It says the totality of such activity will bring the country to a wrong end.
So uncontrolled, misdirected action is what threatens the country.
Past failures are called a futile memory to be set aside, not the cause of ruin.
Surrendering to a goal and directing energy rightly are the cure, so the danger is deeds without proper control of mental energy.
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