Sri Shastriji at Siddhashram, Schweibenalp, Switzerland May 7, 1985 *excerpt from a speech* The law of nature, of life, is to give and take, as a farmer will sow a seed of rice in his field. He sows one seed but in return he gets much more than what he has sown. No computer can give you an account of how many billions of times it has given you more in return than what you sowed. That one grain of rice which you had sown, until such time as it goes bad, will continue to give you tons and tons of rice -- unless it goes bad -- for when it goes bad, naturally, it can't produce anymore. And it would be indeed very selfish of us, that, when the Divine gives us so much food, so much grain to pacify our hunger, gives us water to quench our thirst, we just keep on eating and drinking. But it is absolutely justified that when the Divine is giving us so much, we should in return offer something back to the Divine and not just keep on eating it for our selfish pleasure. That&#