In plain words
At any time at all, words must be very soft. It is soft, sweet words that cool our heart. Man must give no room to excitement. He must give no room to agitation. We let some false notions grow in us. A man broods within himself and grows angry with himself. The cause of this is a fault in seeing. A fault in hearing. A fault in the words we speak. From these three alone arise such bad qualities, bad feelings and bad plans.
Samyak krānti is Sankrānti
Young men! If there is something to do with learning, watch the TV and learn from it. What is shown on TV today is ruining your lives completely. Even if you do watch it now and then, do not watch it while eating. Watching that TV, you eat in a hurry. While eating, one cannot put concentration on it! So, what should concentration be like? Concentration must be on whatever work you are doing. At the time of working, concentration must be on the work. At the time of eating, concentration must be on the food. At the time of speaking, concentration must be on the words. For each task you must keep your attention on that task. Truly, one who is talking cannot work. One who is working cannot talk. So in every task we must keep our aim on it. That is the chief light of man. That light is what we must believe to be Sankrānti. We must not think that this light comes once a year. Sankrānti must come in us moment by moment. ‘Samyak krānti’ is ‘Sankrānti’. Look, you know music. A concert is going on somewhere. At that concert they pay great attention to rāga, śruti and tāla. But nobody recognises the meaning of the words being sung. In the end, not even the singer recognises it. Why tāla, śruti and rāga? This is the great art of our Bhārata. ‘Bhāva, rāga, tāla sammiḷitaṃ bhārataṃ’, it was said. Bhā is bhāva, ra is rāga, ta is tāla: that is ‘Bhārata’.