In plain words
A thought comes, to give a tea party. The tea party is a single thought that came. At once plates, saucers, milk, coffee, biscuits, all of these come forth. Then, when friends are coming, chairs, tables, a table cloth for them, all these come forth with the thought. So the one thought of a tea party brings forth thoughts about ever so many more things. You may think of thoughts as one. But it takes many forms. These thoughts that take many forms go on into many acts. So it is most necessary to recognise well the working of thoughts.
We are born as human beings. In human beings we must develop only good thoughts. For man is one without Ajñāna. But we think Ajñāna is natural. But to think, ‘This Ajñāna is natural to me,’ is itself a great Ajñāna. Ajñāna is not your nature. It is unnatural. Otherwise, jantūnāṃ narajanma durlabham. One could not say that human birth is hard to win; so from ancient times, for man's progress, for man's exalted state, they set up the four aims of life, Dharma, artha, kāma and Mokṣa. This was for the protection of the land. For the path by which humanness comes to divinity. This Dharma was there at the very first. We must try to recognise these to some extent. But the young people of today forget Dharma and Mokṣa, the head and the tail. They hold on to the trunk in the middle and suffer. The first is Dharma. The last is Mokṣa. We forget these two and live holding only to the middle part. We think artha and kāma alone matter. If artha and kāma are not filled with Dharma, these same artha and kāma bring great danger. Dharma does not stay where it is: it leaves its place and joins artha, turns that artha into dharmārtha; the two together, Dharma and artha, enter into kāma; kāma filled with Dharma is enjoyed; and when all three in this way are filled with Dharma, Mokṣa chooses us. We must fill artha too with Dharma. We must fill our desires too with Dharma. Dharma must be present within everything. Only when we follow such a path do we become people who have fulfilled our aims of life. Today at weddings they speak of these three, ‘dharme ca, arthe ca, kāme ca, nāticarāmi’, but they forget Mokṣa.