Passage 5

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In plain words

Even Artha and Kāma we must enjoy only with Dharma. Artha and Kāma too … we must enjoy only with Dharma. Neither Artha without Dharma nor Kāma without Dharma is a path … to Mokṣa. We have cut off the foot that is Dharma and the head that is Mokṣa. We are living our life with the trunk… that is Artha and Kāma. That is why man today, with sorrow and troubles, is ceaselessly subject to …. Of Dharma, Artha, Kāma and Mokṣa, the chief is Dharma.

What is Dharma? It is the oneness joined with trikaraṇa śuddhi. What? Manas, speech and body. … The proper study of mankind is man, they said. What we think must be our thought, and what we say… and the work we do must be one. Only then is Daśaratha transformed into a mahātmā. That is why: ‘In the great, the … is one, the word is one, the deed is one; in the wicked, the mind is other, the word is other, the deed is other,’ they said. It is this oneness of the … that they called trikaraṇa śuddhi. Only at the time one has this trikaraṇa śuddhi does Ātmasiddhi come…; without trikaraṇa śuddhi we do not gain purity of Jñāna. Because he dedicated his life… to such holy practice of Dharma, Daśaratha became supremely holy. Each one's body is itself Daśaratha. Our duty is to make Daśaratha worthwhile. The karma we must do with this body we must do well, wholeheartedly, with trikaraṇa śuddhi. Without trikaraṇa śuddhi, however many Vedas you read… and however many śāstras you recite, there is no use at all. For all the pāyasa in a vessel to leak away, … holes are not needed. One hole is enough. But the vessel that is our body has big, big holes …. All our feelings, from morning to evening and from evening to morning, keep vanishing moment by moment and …. The reason is simply that our citta is not pure. That is why they said that cittaśuddhi alone is the essence of all sādhanas. … we must do karma. We must do japa. We must practise dhyāna. We must enter into yajñas, yāgas and other …. We must perform good actions and works such as charity. What is all this for? It is for cittaśuddhi, not for the attainment of Mokṣa. Our student said it. As long as we take these worldly sense desires into ourselves in this world, so long God stays far away. The … is one heart, not two. Though it is one heart, it is not a double sofa. Though it is one heart, this is not a musical chair. Today, once we have taken God into the one heart, there is no chance for anyone else to ent… there. But how is our heart today? A musical chair. Each minute someone else goes and enters. Being like that, the feelings cannot reach their full state and …. If we purify our citta in the right way, we can achieve anything. For that cittaśuddhi … we must perform many good actions.