In plain words
There is no difference at all in this. So today, in human life, we must give up Ahaṅkāra in every work. We must set aside attachment to the result. We must have faith in divinity. That is the chief goal human life has. Everything in this building is nothing but the result of karmas! This building is the very fruit of the karmas that the engineers, the workers, the masons and the plumbers all carried out. Otherwise, how did this building come to be? So every form, too, is nothing but the fruit of karmas. We must enquire well into karma. At the time of doing karma we do it laughing and laughing. But at the time of experiencing it we experience it weeping and weeping. That is not right. Even when we experience the fruit of karma, we must experience it laughing and laughing. Where did our life come from? At the time of birth we cried, ‘Koham,’ ‘Koham.’ What is the inner meaning of this? ‘Who am I?’, ‘Who am I?’ we cried. Every child cries. But we do not make the effort needed to recognise its inner meaning. ‘Koham’ is the question, ‘Who am I?’ But if we go on crying ‘Who am I?’ right up to the time we have grown up, what is the inner meaning of our life? What is the goal of our life? No, no. One who was born saying ‘Koham’ must die saying ‘Soham.’ We must come into the divine experience, ‘I myself am God.’ Only then is our birth fulfilled.
To be born in Bhārata is itself a great fortune
Embodiments of the divine Ātma! Bhārata is very sacred. It is divine, it is ever new. To be born in this land of Bhārata is itself a great fortune. Nothing at all is gained just because we think of it. It comes looking for us of itself. It is not possible to do all one wishes. It is not possible to say all one thinks.
‘I will do this, I will do that, I will do so much more’: do not wear yourself out weaving such fancies. The seeds you sowed to come to be here: those very fruits come to you. When the seed is one, fruits that are different: how can that ever come about? However much cleverness and strength one may have, there is no great one able to go beyond karma. All that you have done, each one counted, good or bad, with not one cut off, Brahmā gives you and sends you forth with a heavy garland: the necklace strung of all your karmas.