In plain words
He loses the wisdom to discern good from bad. He forgets the distinction between elder and younger. He enters animality. In the end he loses humanness itself. Man enters the river called desire, is swept away on the waves called infatuation, falls into the ocean of worldly life, sinks in unrest and anxiety, and becomes food for the whale called discontent. If we wish to enquire a little into such humanness and enter divinity, Satsaṅga is essential. What is Satsaṅga? ‘Sat’ means that which does not change at any time. What does not change by time, by place or by persons is Satya. We must keep company with that principle of Sat. Through that Consciousness called ‘Sat’ we must experience Ānanda constantly. The principle of Sat, Cit and Ānanda: that is Satsaṅga.
To root out the animality in man and light up divinity: that is the right meaning of spirituality
This Satsaṅga has three qualities. These are the chief principles within humanness. ‘Bhadraṃ śṛṇvantu,’ ‘bhadraṃ paśyantu,’ and ‘bhadraṃ kurvantu.’ They are ‘See good,’ ‘Hear good,’ ‘Live in goodness.’ These are the chief qualities for man. Not the sattva, rajas and tamas guṇas. In the outer world people regard these sattva, rajas and tamas guṇas as the qualities of worldly life, but for those who wish to enter the path of Dharma, the divine path, ‘kurvantu, paśyantu’: these two commands matter most. Bhadraṃ paśyantu: see only good; bhadraṃ śṛṇvantu: hear only good; bhadraṃ kurvantu: do only good. But today, at this age, these three qualities are nil in man. People only make a show of Bhakti and prapatti; they neither practise them nor experience them for themselves. Spirituality lies only in a few outward rites; it does not reach divine experience.