Passage 4

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In plain words

So the people of Bhārata hold a faith made of three things together: the fruit of karma, rebirth, and the saṃskāra carried into life from other births. Seeing modern civilisation advance: what connection do I have with God at all? What need is there to pray to God? What happiness do we get from God? Arguing in this way, young people think that scientists alone can change this world in every way, just as they wish. Today young people insist that believing in a God who cannot be seen is a weakness. But when they regard believing in an unseen God as weakness, they cannot see what kind of weakness it is to place their own trust in many unseen things. Today even scientists prove that air exists by touch, but can they catch hold of the air and look at it? Though they travel through space, and though they believe in sound in our words, can they see space? When troubles of many kinds throw their mind into turmoil of many kinds, they say, ‘The mind is not steady,’ or ‘My mind is at peace’; but can they see the mind? Can the one who says, ‘My heart is calm,’ or ‘It is restless,’ see his heart? When someone says, ‘My head aches badly today,’ the headache is his own experience; but does a headache have a form? So joy, sorrow, grief, delight, the heart and the mind have no forms at all. How do they believe in things that have none? When they call it weakness to believe in the principle of the Ātma within the all-pervading divinity, you may well consider how weak they themselves are.