Passage 3

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So desire, anger and greed keep destroying karma, upāsana and …. Once karma, upāsana and Jñāna have wasted away, man's body is filled with …. Vedānta teaches that Mukti is gained only when these are given up.

What is Mukti? It means release. At certain times every man lets go of …. He gives up one thing and takes up another. Moment by moment … he keeps letting go of one thing. Every man is a mumukṣu. But we let go of worldly …. And on what does the worldly depend? They rest on desire, anger and greed…. Man … the rooting out of his own divine humanness and gives his life over to worldly feelings alone. Yet in man there is … Vijñāna. This is gained only on the spiritual path. The spiritual is keeping the Ātma-tattva in remembrance ….

What is the Ātma? The joining of Manas, Buddhi and prāṇa is itself the Ātma-tattva. They have taught that the joining of these three is …. Man is a tripuṭi in form. These are mind, speech and body. Speech itself is the form of prāṇa; we must try to make … worthwhile. Humanness means that mind, word and deed, these, must stay … joined. A value that is one thing in the mind and another in word and in deed …; karma and Jñāna-upāsana… are what came into being to make this tripuṭi in man pure.

What is karma? Karma itself is man's chief witness…. Karma itself … our good and bad …. Karma is like a big mirror. As a mirror shows us our form, so it keeps showing … our … too, as good and as bad. What … the temperature of our body is the thermometer. In the same way, it is karma that shows whether the karmas we do are worthwhile or not, whether they are rājasic or …. That is why we must set karma on a worthwhile path. The Bhagavad Gītā taught that practising worthwhile … is itself niṣkāma karma. We … the whole of our time in karma alone. So time becomes worthwhile… only when we make these karmas worthwhile karmas. '…rmanu bandhīni manuṣyaloke': the whole of man's life is bound by karmas. That is why only when karma … is practised … in proper order does the body too become worthwhile. Only when body and karma are worthwhile does … become pure.

'Cittasya śuddhayu karmaḥ': through karma comes purity of citta.