Passage 8

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In plain words

We must take part in service to society. One must enjoy what one has earned oneself. As life goes on, they lay their burden on their mother and father, forget what the world is, forget even their own life, and think that this alone is the world. This is not right. We must try to recognise at least a little of the divinity that is in humanness. All must live as children of one mother. All the people of Bhārata have one religion, one culture. We are unable to recognise this Satya. Regional prejudice, hatred of caste and creed, and selfish self-interest are rooting out humanness.

There is only one caste; the caste of humanity There is only one religion; the religion of love There is only one language; the language of the heart

We must develop human life. The man of today is forgetting humanness. He is unable to know his own divinity.

Not a man in form, but a man in practice is what is needed

Embodiments of Prema! We must use these five senses we have well. Only then will sacred feelings keep growing in us. We must recognise the Satya that we belong to humanity. Man lives in two kinds of close relationship. “I am a man”, “I am a man”: that is not the whole Satya. It is only half the Satya! Then what is the second Satya? “I am not a beast”. Only when these two are put together does man live as a man. We must increase the qualities of a man. When you think “I am not a beast”, you must drive away the qualities of a beast. Anger, Ahaṅkāra, envy and hatred: all these are the qualities of a beast. Prema, patience, sacrifice and Satya: all these are the qualities of a man. Only when humanness is divided into these two in this way does man live as a man. A man in form is not a man.