In plain words
By hearing, jñātam; seeing, draṣṭam. Eating, praveṣṭam. Only then does one become one who has enjoyed the fruit in its fullness. In just the same way, what you have read you must bring into your own experience. You must not swell with pride that you are educated merely because you have read. What you have brought into experience you must enjoy with joy and give to others.
This they taught on the spiritual path as priya, moda, pramoda. What is priyam? When you hear news of those you love, of a person you love, you rejoice. You take it in with great Prema. When someone tells you about things very dear to you, or about a person, a certain priya arises. Joy arises. But when you go and see that dear person himself, you overflow with still greater joy. The joy of seeing and experiencing is called moda. Our experiencing that person is itself called pramoda. Merely by thinking of the person you love, you cannot enjoy full joy. You must draw near to that person. We must join with the person we have drawn near to. So the oneness of these three, hearing, drawing near and joining, is called fullness. That is the true mark of human nature, they said. This they called The Proper study of mankind is man. That is, the oneness of these three, thought, word, action, is fullness, they said. So what we have read we must bring into experience. What we have experienced we must make grow. We must share it with others. When you keep what is in your experience merely to yourself without sharing it, it turns into betrayal. When you fail to share this with others, you become selfish. To the selfish man the principle of good and bad, of doing good to others, does not come to mind. The one called man must become free of selfishness. Only when we grow in that selflessness does our learning gain its meaning. Is all this purity out there outside, or within us? So we must try to recognise well the good and the bad in the work we do.
But our education today is such that we are trying to scrutinise the faults outside, but are making no effort at all to search out the faults that are in us. We must accept the good that is outside. We must throw out the fault that is in us. Only when we throw out the faults within us do we become fit to accept the good outside. If you want to pour the milk that is outside into this vessel, you must pour away the water in this vessel. Only when you pour this away can you take that in. Without pouring this away you cannot take that in. So we must set about driving away the bad feelings, bad thoughts and bad habits in our heart.