Passage 2

Tap any word for its meaning.

In plain words

They say there is no connection whatever between the spiritual and the worldly. This is a great mistake. Without the ideal and the support of the spiritual, the worldly and the vyāvahārika cannot exist at all. Within the vyāvahārika too, the pāramārthika is contained. So the Veda has gone on demonstrating the truth that the divinity in all three, the pāramārthika, the vyāvahārika and the prātibhāsika, is one and the same.

From generation to generation Bhārata has been giving every nation a lasting peace and security through spiritual wealth. That is why, even to this day, Bhārata has gone on proclaiming the broad feeling ‘Lokās samastāḥ sukhino bhavantu’. To make this ideal firm, the kings of those days, the ṛṣis of those days, the munis of those days, the chaste mothers of those days, all of them, went on making great sacrifices. In those days everyone united for such an ideal and made the arrangements needed for its growth. Today, whatever matter one enters into, it is each one for himself, each on his own bank of the Yamunā. Unity is simply not to be seen. When this unity is not in the heart, enmity begins there. We must see that this enmity does not enter the heart. Today there is no unity. There is no Divinity. People regard it all as an artificial religion. They are wasting life in this thing called community. From ancient times in Bhārata the ṛṣis, munis and kings carried out the spreading and teaching of such noble sayings, and in this way they have kept spiritual power safe. If spirituality itself perishes in Bhārata, the whole world perishes. For all nations spirituality is the root.

Whatever kind of man he may be, he must enter the pāramārthika. No man is ever without thirst. These desires themselves are man's thirst. If the thirst is to be quenched: even when desires are fulfilled, his thirst is not quenched. If man's pāramārthika desire is to be fulfilled, thinking of God is essential. Only the water of the pāramārthika allays the thirst. Today in society there is no pāramārthika. There is no morality. There is no practice of Dharma. But positions and money, these two alone, are their goal. You may earn money. How should they use this money? They must put this money to good use. Because they do not put it to good use, many upheavals are starting in society.