In plain words
Then Emperor Bali said, "'Is there a sin greater than giving your word and lying?' You may be my guru; I will not go back on the word I have given; I have given my word, and come what may, I will not break it!" We must try to lead so sacred a life. Among so many here, if any ten stand firm, it is enough. We can save the world. How many of us are guarding Satya? How many of us are able to uphold Dharma? No. We listen to many discourses. We read thousands of books. We see hundreds of great souls. What is it that you follow? What is it that you practise? What is it that you have brought into your own experience? Nothing. They call themselves paṇḍits. What does paṇḍit mean? Is he a paṇḍit who has read the Vedas, the śāstras and the itihāsas? Or is he a paṇḍit who is expert in all the śāstras? No, no. The Bhagavad Gītā rejected all these and said, "Paṇḍitaḥ samadarśanaḥ." The one who has the same mind in pleasure and pain, in sin and merit, in blame and praise, in hardship and loss: he is a paṇḍit. Heat and cold should not touch him at all. That too must be there; this too must be there. These are the marks of the world. They are the Dharmas of the world. If you want the cold, with no sun, you cannot go on wishing for the cold for long. You will want the sun again. When the sun beats down fiercely, we cannot bear the sun. We want coolness. Is this in your hands? This is the grace of God. The world itself is called duality. Only when there is duality does man prosper. Because these two are there, man is able to enjoy happiness and Śānti. Nobody likes to eat sweets all the time. If you eat sweets for ten days, on the eleventh day you have to take pickles. If you eat pickles every day, the wish for sweets comes. Pleasure and pain, profit and loss: both will be there. But in duality we must recognise oneness. We should not go into duality just because there is duality in creation.
Manas swings this way and that, just like the pendulum of a clock. As long as it swings, the jīva, Brahman and the rest, the minute hand, the hour hand, keep going round. The jīvātma and the Paramātma keep on going round. When do they meet? When this pendulum stops, then they meet. You must try to stop this pendulum called Manas. As long as you want time, this pendulum has to keep going round.