Passage 4

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In plain words

He must change his nature. When we forget the “I, I” and examine the matter well, Satya becomes clear to us. Discrimination means examining what is permanent and what is impermanent, not examining what is mine and what is another's. So we must push aside this “I and mine” and enquire what the nature of this thing is, what is good and bad in it. So the reason the divine Sat-Cit-Ānanda in our humanness fails to show itself is the fault in our own way of seeing.

Good conduct gives good health

Students! In the world, in creation, there is no fault at all. All the fault is in the way man sees. And we cast even this seeing according to our own wishes. We must not waste this sacred time of life. We call many people young, young. Whom do you think of as young? Do you think of those between, say, fifteen and thirty years of age as young? No. The healthy man alone is young. Bhīṣmācārya was a hundred and sixteen years old. He was a great young man indeed. It was because he was strong and contented, free of every disease, that he could fight a war though he was a hundred and sixteen. What was the reason for this? Conduct is the root cause. When a man sets the conduct of his humanness on the right path, he can stay healthy and happy all his life. As long as he has this health and happiness, he is young. That is the chief wealth of the young. That is “health is wealth”. To guard this health, we must keep our thoughts under control as far as we can.

We think we are truly rich. Who are the rich? A man who sets up a big practice, sets up many kinds of industries, borrows crores of money and goes about grandly in great big cars: he is not the rich man. All of you know Tata, Birla, Kirloskar; you think all such people are great millionaires.