In plain words
Calling one thing good and another bad, can we so judge it in creation? This and that alike the one Īśvara made; who has the power to know its principle? I tell you the plain truth.
Students!
In this age of new civilisation, many problems grow rampant from day to day. Life itself is taking the shape of a problem that has no end. Because the means of travel have grown so many, the world itself has become small. When problems begin in one place, the very next moment these same problems are growing all over the world. The reason is this: man is discovering many kinds of easy ways to be rid of them. But those who discover these easy ways do not recognise that ‘the ways are easy, but the problems are very hard’. Everyone says they want a very easy way. A headache: take a tablet, and it must go. In the same way, they think every problem must be settled with just one tablet. In the same way, we think Mokṣa must come to us very easily. What does ‘easy’ mean? What does ‘remedy’ mean? What does short cut mean? These are problems we are not able even to recognise. In this material world, this physical world, this world of worldly affairs, on this path of pravṛtti, we cannot grasp the meaning of even these small words. The words are easy, but their meaning is endless.