In plain words
What is the goal of humanness? From where do you experience Ānanda? It arises from God alone. We call it happiness. Happiness is union with God. This God. Where? Where is there any searching for the Divinity that is everywhere? You yourself are God. Only because you identify with the body do you think you are a man. The body is a bubble of water. The mind is a mad monkey. These two are negatives. What should we follow? We should follow the conscience. This is the true principle. This conscience teaches Satya alone. We must make the effort it takes to know such Satya. Only when we experience a heart untainted by attachment, hatred and the like, speech untainted by untruth and the like, and a body untainted by violence and the like, does Divinity become manifest. But today there is no Śānti. Why is there no Śānti?
By wicked resolves one becomes wicked; by true resolves one becomes good; only one free of every resolve attains Śānti.
We must come to be without any resolves. The resolves of a moment must be lived out in that moment itself. The gathering of these resolves alone is the form of the mind. So when we check our resolves, we can easily check the mind. This is: less luggage more comfort, make travel a pleasure. For man today, desires grow beyond all limits. We must try to reduce these desires little by little. Through these desires alone man falls prey to unrest. So we must limit ourselves to the desires that are needed, and those alone.
Satsaṅga with Satya
While we live in society, we must live morally, according to Dharma, and spiritually. This is what the sacred Vedas have taught in many forms. ‘Satyaṃ brūyāt’: this gives moral honour. Man today has lost moral honour. What is the reason? By forgetting Satya, moral values are wasting away. The second is the truth of Dharma. ‘Priyaṃ brūyāt’. Even this truth must be told in pleasing words. Truth must not be told in harsh words. ‘Na brūyāt satyam apriyaṃ’ is the spiritual value. We must not tell an untruth because it will give pleasure. Man today has forgotten these three qualities. Wherever you look in society, Satya has become scarce. They are unable to recognise that what is pleasing is itself what is true. It can be seen on the board in front. Truth is God. Love is God. These two are not here today. They can be seen on the board outside, but they must be seen on the board of your heart. Good or bad, it is the reflection of the inner being. We must install them within the heart. Only then can we gain honour in the outer world.
To develop social life, there must be a kind of pleasingness. To develop the powers of the mind, there must be Satya. Satya is great and everlasting. Hide it, and it will not stay hidden. Change it, and it will not change. What never changes, never wavers, never burns, and stays for ever: that alone is Satya. This Satya is nowhere to be seen in man today. How, then, can you experience Divinity? We must enter satsaṅga. When we enter this satsaṅga, these sacred feelings come to mind, and it becomes possible to put them into practice. For everything, time is most important. It is the measure.
God is the form of Time, and beyond Time
Young women and young men! Today we are wasting God, who is the form of Time. ‘Kālāya namaḥ, kālakālāya namaḥ’: everything is contained in time. You came here, and already four days have gone by. All this has come about through time, has it not? But the person stays one and the same. Through the change of time, many forms keep changing. The moment one is born, they say child. At ten years, they say boy. At thirty years, they say boy. At seventy-five years, they say grandfather. Child, boy, boy, grandfather: it is all one person. Time alone is the chief thing in everything. So we must not waste time. Time waste is life waste.