In plain words
Only when students change their ways through good behaviour and right conduct will the country be set right. There is no use at all in doing sādhanas. What result comes of these sādhanas? They may give a passing satisfaction. People sit down saying, ‘Dhyāna, dhyāna.’ What is dhyāna? In life, everything is dhyāna! Without dhyāna, how can you do your office work? On your way to the office you drive your car along the road. While you are driving, if your dhyāna is not on the road, how can you drive? What does dhyāna mean? Walking, reading, talking, eating, writing practice: like this, every single thing is dhyāna! That is, to fix the mind on some one thing is itself dhyāna. The students' whole dhyāna is on their studies, the mother's whole dhyāna on her children, the householders' whole dhyāna on the family, the workers' whole dhyāna on the machines, the farmer's whole dhyāna on the land. In this way each one has his dhyāna on some one thing. In the same way, fix your mind on God! But you must not think, because you are always busy doing something, that you are not doing God's work. Whatever work you do, think, ‘This is God's own work!’ In this way, regard all action as done to please God. You are ploughing the land. Tell yourself, ‘I am tilling the field of my heart’! You are sowing seeds in it. ‘In the field of my heart I am sowing good seeds. I am sowing the seeds of good qualities,’ tell yourself! You are watering it. Tell yourself, ‘I am watering it with the water of Prema’! If you wish to enter the spiritual path in this way, you need not hold only a japamālā. You need not sit alone. You need not go to the forest. You can behold divinity in the very work you are doing. The first thing to recognise in humanness today is this: we are losing unity. We must foster unity! We must regard all as one! There may be physical differences among you. In mind there may be differences of opinion. But the principle of the Ātma is one and the same! That is ‘Ekohaṃ bahusyāṃ.’