In plain words
So for everything you must consider the time, the cause and the duty.
Now look at a small example. In the morning at nine o'clock you … the journey. You sat in a bus. Setting out at nine the next morning, they go one hour … and reach Puttaparthi. How did you travel? By bus. Here are time, karma and cause: you had darśan of Swami. By the time these three have come about, the duty is fulfilled. You had a dream. You are living in Bangalore. Look into the dream and you … in a train for Swami's darśan. Is this true, or is it Asatya? What it means is this: in the waking state there are time, karma, cause and duty. … in the dream these four are not there. How so? When did you set out from Bangalore? No …me. By what did you reach Puttaparthi? That is not there either. What is the cause? This too is not known …. With these three settled, what more did you experience? You saw Swami. The duty became …. Only when it is joined with time, karma and cause is duty fruitful. … this is the very link between dream and waking. In this waking state we experience through all the senses. In the dream we experience everything with Manas alone. …! Every single thing we experience through Manas alone. In this dream you hear Swami as if He were speaking in this verandah, among … many people. What did Manas do? It created … building. It created this verandah too. It created the words there. For in this dream you have no mouth. In that dream your eyes are not there; yet it created all of them: eyes that are not there, a mouth that is not there, ears that are not there, people who are not there. It was Manas that created all this, and so this very Manas did create everything. So the root cause of your good and bad is Manas itself. When we develop good resolves, a good result comes to us. When we develop bad resolves, we experience nothing but a bad result. So we must settle it that Manas is what is made of resolving and wavering. So when the resolves are good, Manas is good. When the vision is good, creation is good. So to decide the good and bad of creation, we must first of all settle our own vision. To keep the vision right, we must keep our resolves right. If we want these resolves to be right and pure, Manas must be holy. The root cause of our joys and sorrows is our own Manas …; no one else is ever the cause.