In plain words
Spending is high, income is low. They are spending twelve thousand crores on defence alone. Then they pay ten thousand crores as interest on debt. All the remaining crores they hand out on salaries, raising them and raising them every year. All the money collected in our Bhārata they divide chiefly among these three alone. There is no money in hand for the rest of development. So they are taking it as loans from other countries. Now, if you ask how much debt our Bhārata has, it is thirty-three thousand crores. On this debt they pay ten thousand crores of interest a year. Even taking loans is all right, but we must not agree to pawn. And how far this will go, growing and growing by degrees, whether they will set about pawning, who knows: there is no saying. You all know a small example. Under British rule, a barrel of petrol was four rupees. Ah, collecting four rupees they are looting Bhārata! Four rupees for a barrel of petrol? So all our leaders rose up against them. Today a barrel of petrol is four hundred rupees. Who is looting this? We of Bhārata, as people of Bhārata ourselves, are doing the looting. I hope that our students will root out all such faults and, with patience and sympathy, on the right path, shape a pure form.
This, as śāstra knowledge, experiential knowledge and Viveka knowledge, three, in the language of Vedānta, they called jñātum, draṣṭum, praveṣṭum. If it is only these three, then in this, what is śāstra knowledge? Recognising in a book what it says about it. That is, coming to know well through a book what there is to know about a substance, and examining in the practical what was learnt through the book. Seeing this for ourselves in the experiment. Making what we have seen enter us, so that it clings fast in the heart. The joining of these three is its true fullness. Merely by reading in a book we cannot become men of knowledge. Merely by seeing in the laboratory we cannot become men of full knowledge. What we have seen we must take into the heart. A small example for this. You are very fond of a certain fruit. Your friends come and tell you that this fruit has come to the market. This is mere śāstra knowledge, one kind. That is, something known by hearing. Oho, the fruit I was longing for has come to the market, it seems: some joy grows. Just by that, the fruit has not reached our stomach. You must go to the market. You must see whether the fruit you longed for is there or not. When you see it, the joy grows still more. The joy grows, but it has not gone in as food. You must pay money, buy it and eat it. Once you have eaten it, you gain full joy. The food has gone inside.