Passage 1

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In plain words

Without charity and giving, without compassion and Satya, without good morals in the mind, the one who goes about sporting with evil qualities, that base man, is ruined on earth and ruined in the world beyond.

This body is a worthless iron box; as jewels are put in a box, in the body dwells the God who is the Ātma, know this: Sai's word is the true path.

Teachers! Students! Lovers of learning!

Today the Vice-Chancellor asked Me to explain the six cakras. The ordinary man cannot understand what are called the six cakras. Only the foremost of yogis, and no others, can recognise this and understand it. Yet we must not neglect it, thinking it a matter impossible for us. Awareness is life. We must know that to recognise in all things and act accordingly is the special mark of humanness. Through the influence of place, time and circumstance, and through time, karma, cause and duty, we may come to this state some day; so it is most necessary to recognise these things beforehand and understand them.

Only one who has purity of citta attains Jñāna

Of the fourfold antaḥkaraṇa, Manas is the first. It is the instrument that makes us aware of pleasure and happiness, of sorrow and grief. It is the chief cause of the pravṛttis. Not only this, it is the chief life-breath of the four puruṣārthas as well.