Passage 4

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In plain words

But the man of today does not think at all of the … sacredness. Fixing his aim on his own desires alone, he … karmas. Whatever karmas he does, he is taking selfishness and his own gain alone as his ideal…; he lives for the sake of …, but makes no effort to live for the sake of ideals. We must live for the sake of … and give others an example. The life of ideals itself is one formed from trikaraṇa…. Whether he is a good man or a bad one, the verdict rests on his karma, they …. All these karmas are bound up with time. Time itself is the form of God. With bad …, we become people who have defiled the form of God. Since ours is a body … by time, we must put time into karmas that make it worthwhile.

Embodiments of Prema! Time moves on moment by moment. Time is a flow …; all must follow time, but time follows no one. Time is …. To make independent time worthwhile, we must … time. God is the form of time. God, who is the form of time, today appears as …. Vatsala means one who plays. Govatsalā means Kṛṣṇa…, one who plays with …. Saṃvatsara means one who plays with all. For time, here, no … feelings of any kind appear. From the starving poor to the millionaire, from the emperor to the outcaste, … there is no …. Time itself stays as witness to each one's karma.

On a drama stage there are lights. One man comes on as a great king and goes. Anoth… plays the part of … and goes off. With those lights to go by, another man, writing false accounts, …; yet another reads the Rāmāyaṇa in that light. Some others … quarrel… on the stage. Though so many kinds of performances go on, the faults of no one touch… those lights; they stayed a witness to all. But no one's faults, no one's good deeds … clung to them. What each one does is his alone. That is why we must not set about defiling time. … may be defiled, but time is not defiled. We need not wait for such a time … until …. Every moment is the very form of time! The year rests on the moment itself. … we must put every moment into worthwhile karmas without wasting it. Tell me, what happiness have you gained … karmas of so many kinds? Have you won lasting happiness for even a single moment? No. No.

What is …?