In plain words
First of all, man must develop a pure mind
Purity of mind is essential for man. One without this purity of mind is not a human being at all. The name ‘maniṣi’ comes from Manas itself. When the mind is impure, this fellow is no maniṣi at all. Today man keeps an impure mind and cheats the country and society under the name ‘maniṣi’. So, first of all, man must develop a pure mind. In a way he imagines that the very feelings within himself are in others. He keeps laying the faults that are in himself on others. But only what one has eaten oneself brings up a belch in oneself; what another has eaten cannot make one belch. To cover up his own faults, he plants those faults in others. This too is a great bad quality! Only when he recognises his own fault does he improve; but while he thinks that his own faults are in others, he makes his fault grow day by day. ‘See good in others, see bad in yourself.’ Only such a man progresses. Covering up even the great faults in himself and going on spurning the greatness in others, he forgets what humanness is. Today this, above all, is entering the young. Then there is no sense at all in their calling themselves ‘human beings’. The proper study of mankind is man. Thoughts, words, action: these three must become one. When a man has one thing in his mind, another in his speech and does yet another in his deeds, he becomes a wicked man. That is what they said: ‘Manassanyat, vacassanyat, karmaṇanyat durātmanām.’ We must develop humanness within the oneness of these three. That is the true human value.
The Gaṇapati principle teaches sacred oneness
Today man sees value in everything, but he does not look at his own value at all.