In plain words
God is not in some other land apart; God dwells in one's own body; sin is not in some foreign land apart; it clings to the deeds one does.
Sin and merit come by the deeds we do. What is the cause of this sin and merit? Our own thoughts! So our thoughts must be sacred, pure, spotless and steady. The thoughts of man today are very impure. They are fickle. They are worse than a mad monkey's; how then can you be called a man? Shame, shame! If man, who is God, cannot get himself called man, what is the use of your having humanness? ‘I am Man. I am a man’: that self-confidence must be there. That is why they said, the proper study of mankind is man. Thoughts, words and deeds: the three must be one. Thinking one thing, saying another, doing yet another: this is a way contrary to humanness. That is precisely why Vedānta said, ‘Manassanyat, vacassanyat, karmaṇanyat durātmanam’. It said, ‘You, fellow, are a wicked soul’. To keep the word we have given, we must offer up our humanness. We must practise tyāga. Emperor Bali gave his word to Vāmana. ‘I will give you three paces of land,’ he said. However much his guru taught him, he would not listen. ‘Gurujī! To break the word one has given is not natural to man. It is a great sin. So I will not break my word. I will offer up everything,’ he said. ‘Is there a sin greater than to say a thing and then lie?’ To give your word and then slip out of it: is there any other sin greater than this! Defying even the guru, we must uphold Satya.
If you protect Satya and Dharma, you will have protected the country
Today what we must protect is not the country. Students! Today the country is wasting away under many injustices, wrongs and misdeeds.