In plain words
What is a mānava? One who has Manas is a mānava. So it is from Manas alone that the name maniṣi came. Who is a maniṣi? What is Manas? It is nothing but the coming together of saṅkalpa and vikalpa. What are saṅkalpas? They are nothing but the practices we carry out in daily life. And what are these practices? They are the results that come to us bound up with our karma. That is to say, reaction. So humanness means reaction, reflection and resound. So we may say. Everything we have done comes back as reaction; it comes back as resound. It comes back as reflection. So we must try to do good. First of all we must make the effort it takes to be called a man in the world.
One who lives in the world must first be a man; one who praises wickedness in demons is a fool. To learn the knowledge of Brahman and find the Ātma here, how can one know the wisdom of the Principle, not knowing who one is?
So first of all we must try to recognise our own principle ourselves. But man today grieves over everything. For what? He does not grieve for Dharma.
They wept when they were born; they will weep when they die; in between they weep over worries, over this and that; did they weep to raise Dharma up when it declined? What did they weep for? Did they weep just for the sake of weeping?
Man does not understand what he is weeping for. You must weep for God. You must weep for Dharma. Not weeping for wealth. Not weeping for land. Duryodhana wept for wealth and for land. But Arjuna wept for Dharma, for God. It was because he wept for Dharma that it became a Viṣāda Yoga. So we must grieve for the sake of God. We must long for God.
Tapas. Tapas. Tapas. What is this tapas? Tapas means that which is not tamas: that is tapas. What is this tapas? The oneness of our three, mind, speech and action, is itself tapas. This tapas is slipping away from us. "Su" means good. For the sake of good we must do tapas. We must raise ourselves up by ourselves. The very heat of longing, "I want it, I want it", turns into tapas. That heat has cooled in man today. We must wake that heat again. We must pass from this tamas into tapas. Whatever hardships come, whatever sufferings stand in our way, we must develop the faith it takes to face them with courage.