In plain words
Your vision has a value. Hearing too has a value. It is the ears that hear! But what kind of things must they hear? Into what kind of hearing must the ears be brought? You must recognise this truth. Each sense, as befits it and as time and occasion require: when, where, how, whom and in what way must it see? To use it so: that itself is the true human value.
Prema Alone Gives Man His True Value
That Prema alone gives man his true value. We have built ourselves a house. For this house we have put in some windows. We have put in some doors too. What are these windows for? For good air to come in and bad air to go out; for light to come in and darkness to go out. What are the doors for? We keep doors for us to come in and go out, and to let in our friends, our relatives and those we need. Those we need we let in; but those who are against us we do not let in. In the same way, ‘Deho devālaya prokto jīvo devas sanātanaḥ’: the body is a temple. The house is a shrine. This house has nine doors. But the doors our eyes can see are five. These are very important. Through the main door we let in our friends, our relatives, our dear ones, saying, ‘Come in, you are welcome.’ But just because there is a door, do we let the pigs and dogs going along the bazaar loose in the house? We do not. In the same way, in the temple, the house, that is our body, we must make the inquiry, what is good, what is sacred, what holds out an ideal for life, and by the Jñāna of discernment let in only that feeling, that matter, which ought to be let in. We must not let everything in. Just because there is Prema, we must not use it for everything. Where, and how much, it is to be brought in: we must use it within that limit alone.