Passage 6

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In plain words

There are people who revile not only ordinary men but God too. This is simply their nature. If you really think about it, God has done them no harm at all. He has done them no wrong. Yet even in such a state there are wicked people who look for some faults in God too.

Though a good man keeps quietly to himself, the evil-minded man, for no reason, cannot bear it, and doing him harm is his skill: saris may be worth a hundred coins, yet while they lie in the box the moth gets in and gnaws them to shreds: what does the moth gain by it?

It will eat into even a sari worth a thousand rupees. It will eat into even a sooty rag lying in the kitchen. Eating into things is its nature. It has no discriminating knowledge at all. It has no nature to enquire, none at all. In the same way, in a person with bad saṅkalpas bad feelings keep growing too. What is the cause of these bad feelings? The cause is just this: not being able to foster good saṅkalpas. If there is a foul smell, and we want to get rid of it, we must bring a fragrance near. Some people even spray Air spray in the room. What for? To drive away that foul smell. When there is a foul smell, they light incense sticks or burn sāmbrāṇi and drive the foul smell away. So if we want to drive away the bad saṅkalpas in man, we must foster good saṅkalpas. Our life becomes worth living only through good saṅkalpas. Through bad saṅkalpas our life sinks to the level of a beast. So Manas is very dangerous. That is why even Arjuna prayed to Kṛṣṇa, 'Cañcalaṃ manaḥ kṛṣṇā pramādi balavadhṛḍhaṃ: it is not only fickle, it is very firm.'

Śreyohi jñānam abhyāsāt jñānāddhyānaṃ viśiṣyate dhyānātkarma phalatyāgas tyāgācchāntiranantaram.

When does this tyāga come? Tyāgāśśāntiranantaram. Śānti. Śānti. Śānti. Where does Śānti come from?