Passage 4

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In plain words

This is real unity. So we must make the effort to experience what we call unity with all our heart. Vijñāna is most necessary. We must enquire into the Prajñāna that is in this Vijñāna too. We must enquire into the Sujñāna that is in this world too. Humanness is the blended form of Vijñāna, Prajñāna and Sujñāna. To attain oneness in these three is the principle of real Prajñā. We must pursue education of this kind today. We must always conduct ourselves with the greatest care. This very thing they called the ABC of Life. A-always B-be, C-careful. Its meaning is Always be careful. This is our real learning. Neglecting this real principle, we are living ever careless.

Life is most sacred. Pavitra came from the Latin language. It was born from what is called vir. Vir means man. So its meaning is that man is pavitra. Every act that a sacred man does must be sacred too. All the saṅkalpas of man must be sacred. But today such purity has gone missing. This purity is nowhere to be seen today; selfishness and self-interest are wrong; equality and unity are going very far away. We must bid farewell to selfishness and self-interest too. We must develop an excellent unity. We must welcome it. Today students are not growing in the least in right education in their daily lives. They pursue education for the sake of piling up information, but do not recognise the truth that it is for the awakening of the Ātma. No. No. Education is the very basis of our life. That is why only when we recognise this principle of Prajñā well, believe with all our heart in Satya, Dharma, Śānti and Prema that have arisen in this Prajñā, and put them into practice, is its Ānanda gained.

These human values are not things we learn in a book. They are not things we gain by teaching alone. One must develop them by one's own strength, in one's own practice itself. That a change will come about in a man's conduct through today's lectures is wrong. Man's conduct is most necessary. Man means nothing but the Manas. Manas means nothing but saṅkalpas. Saṅkalpas mean nothing but what unfolds in daily life. For this unfolding, it is conduct itself. If today the world is not as it ought to be, conduct is the true ground of it. Man is not as he ought to be. So only when we change this conduct can we experience right values and Ānanda in it.