In plain words
actions: we waste a great deal of it. I have told you many times:
see no evil see what is good hear no evil hear what is good Talk no evil Talk what is good. Think no evil Think what is good. do no evil do what is good. This is The way to God.
Going into God's presence is not running and running and falling down. To keep these five senses under right control is the true royal road.
The divine power within us we ourselves spoil knowingly. See a small example. There is a blind man. His sight does not reach out at all. His … … are very subtle. Why is it that we are left without that power? We cast out our sight the other way, without measure. By that we lose the divine power within us. Losing… power, we become weak. Because we fall into this weakness, our whole life falls a prey to sorrows. So we must keep our sight, our speech and our hearing under right control. Is anyone talking of bad things? Go, go away from that place. Do not listen. Has something bad come before our …? Do not look at it. Such is the nature of the eye. It makes the object in front of it reflect … in itself. It does not reflect a thing that is not in front of it. When our sight fall… on it, it reflect…s it. When our sight is not on it, it does not reflect it at all. Reflection, reaction, resound: through these three, humanness becomes very weak. We lose without measure the divinity that is in humanness. Do not see the bad. Do not hear the bad. Do not speak the bad. Do not use words that hurt another's heart. This is the inner meaning of saying, help ever, hurt never. The revered Vyāsa:
In the eighteen Purāṇas, Vyāsa's words are two: helping others is for merit; harming others is for sin.
What is sin? Tormenting others is sin. What is merit? Making others happy is itself merit. If you have no chance to do merit, at least do no sin. That itself is a great merit.