In plain words
What is it that we must take in? What is it that we must let go?
Fear of sin, love of God, the morality of society: only when these three are there does one become a man
In daily life, on the path of Satya, people keep experiencing it every day. A small example. Every man has this in his own experience! We send pure, tasty things inside. We send in things that are not only very tasty but valuable too. We send in pure things too. But what we leave behind are unclean and worthless. We send out impure matter. If we eat fruit today, we pass out waste the next day. Taking in is good; letting go is bad. This is the inner meaning of spirituality. What we must fill ourselves with are good virtues, good customs, good conduct, good learning. Bad customs, bad qualities, Ahaṅkāra and bad learning we must push far away. But, unfortunately, it is the bad that we take in. Is this humanness, and not demonic nature? No, no. We are divine human beings. We are sacred human beings. ‘Jantūnāṃ narajanma durlabhaṃ.’ Even after taking this precious human birth, we are unable to find out what is good. We are unable to take in what is good. All life long it is longing for money, longing for money. We bring our lives to an end inside this longing for money. We forget the very state of society. It is in society that we live. It is society's joy that we enjoy. But we are unable to offer society any gratitude. So, first of all, we must keep on being grateful. What has humanness come for? It is all contained in three formulas only. Bend the body, mend the senses, end the mind. The whole of life rests on these three alone. We must bend the body and work.