Passage 3

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In plain words

The root cause of this is nothing but physical desires. Man is bent on selling the …, which is like a ruby, for soot and charcoal. Truly, had he recognised this humanness …, he would not be in the least a slave to vāsanās for sense objects such as these. He cannot recognise the … value of God's Name…. Tulasīdās said: one who does not know the worth of a gem … throws it away anywhere at all. First of all we try… to recognise the worth of the gem of the Name. Mīrā too recognised this gem of the Name and lived by it. This gem of the Name, we drink… it; what every human being should drink is not tea and coffee. The gem of the Name.

… sorrows do not cling to one who has firmly installed God's Name on the seat of the heart. In a Western land there lived a great scholar called Socrates. He was a great … … Socrates drew the young men close to him and gave them right teaching in the tattva of Prema. But … cannot understand it. Each understands according to his own feelings. Of this, …s have said, ‘Muṇḍe muṇḍe matirbhinnā’. When each head is different, the thoughts too are … . Not everyone's mind is the same. This good fortune comes according to one's lot. Many people went on criticising, in many ways, the teaching … gave the young men. But the … teachings he gave are understood only by those who listen, not by those who look on. Many kings went on making … . All the young men are flocking to Socrates. Not a single young man is setting foot … the battlefield for the defence of our country. They made a complaint that fitting action should be taken on this. Those young men were very fond of Socrates. He looked after those young men with great love. … no one grasped that truth called Love for Love. Today it is Love for material. Those … this cannot understand Love for Love. In this world every object chang… from moment to moment. To dedicate one's life to such changing, moving objects is not right…. Though reports were made in this way, … kept warning Socrates in many ways. But his faith was his own. His truth was his own. To recognise the Satya of God is not possible for … . Tyāgarāja too said the same: ‘They cannot know, Rāma! the path of Bhakti’. These people make no effort to recognise the path of …; they try only to recognise the path of bhukti.