In plain words
We do not go fully into the depths and inquire. What is the reason for this? The power of inquiry … uses, he uses according to his own convenience. That discrimination is not universal …mination. This is individual discrimination. But it must be fundamental discrimi- …. This karma must be such that everyone says: happiness. If I alone am content, there is no use. To cover up his own fault, one devis… … some kinds of schemes. There is a thief. He is stealing. When the police catch him, this fellow, he … … this is wrong …. I have no money; he has money. If you ask the one who has, he will not give. So … I am stealing in this way. It seems right only to him, but to society it does not … seem so. To cover up his own fault, man begins his individual inqui…. By that individual power of inquiry alone man keeps entering… many faults; taking a little time, recognising his duty before performing karmas, only when he … in this work does this karma's fulfilment … through the oneness of all four, time, karma, cause and duty. So before performing karmas every man must … inquire into time, karma, cause and duty. Whatever work he enters, every man must ask himself three questions. … What am I doing? The second. How am I doing it? The third? Why am I doing it? If we ask ourselves … these three, the right fruit comes to us there. What am I doing, how am I …ing, why am I doing it: we do not ask ourselves these three questions. We perform karmas … our own wishes. We do not inquire whether it is fit to do or unfit to do.
Am I setting out on the right path or entering a wrong path; why am I doing … am I doing it for fame in society, or am I doing it for disrepute? By performing this karma, how can I stand in this …? When one inquires in this way, there will … no chance for one to take a wrong path. But man today is going in one way traffic. This is not right. The … of today does many great deeds that are impermanent, transient and Asatya. Dharma, duty …, he forgets. Wanting to cross the English Channel, a man practises swimming day and night and boldly enters that sea, with no fear that the … in it will eat him. What is the reason? If he … the English Channel, it will come in the headlines in the paper the next day. With great courage and daring he enters it. But … courage and daring he puts not at all into a good work. The paper describes the one who crossed this English Channel as a very great man, one with courage and daring.