In plain words
In this world some kind of tension rises out of us like steam. If it is something good, we laugh. If it is something bad, we cry. This crying, this laughing. What is it for? Not that you must cry. Not that you must laugh. That tension must somehow come out. It must be spent. So that it is spent, we cry at some things and laugh at others. All this is nothing but the reactions of tension. A small example. Last week Kasturi may have made you laugh. He is a master of humour. But humour is not right in everything. On the spiritual path and in sacred matters we must speak very seriously. If humour comes in the midst of these, all that sacredness is spoiled. So we must use this humour and this sacredness according to the time and the occasion. Suppose a man is walking along the road, and while he walks there may be a banana peel lying there, and he slips and falls down. When he slips and falls, if he is not hurt at all, he laughs, and the people around him laugh. But if he is hurt there, he cries, and the people around him too come very seriously and help him. That is, the reaction of a tension that arose according to the time and the occasion.
So in every human being some disappointments or some hopes keep arising. Their reactions take the shape of sorrow. These are the results of thoughts and counter-thoughts. I said so on the last Sankrānti day. Every person must first try to recognise these thoughts and the mind. I said that only then would this humanness be understood well, and I said that every Thursday I would surely teach about this mind. That chance has begun only today. From now on, every Thursday, it is most essential to know about these thoughts and the influence of this mind. The influences of this mind and the reactions of the mind number five crores. Not one, not two. This mind takes on five crores of forms. So let us begin with the thought "I". You can also call these five crores of waves. So, as we follow with a worldly outlook what belongs to Prakṛti in this system of education and enquire with a divine outlook into the divinity that is its support, I end My talk hoping and blessing that the students will make the fitting effort with enthusiasm to pass in both and to grow in zeal for it.