In plain words
Time is God. Don't waste time. This kind of principle is seen very rarely in the students of today. By too much talk we waste time. By too much talk our energy is used up. A small example. We tuned the radio to a station. We listened to songs for half an hour. Now, by having the radio on for this half hour, how many units of current were spent? In the same way, our body itself is a radio. Our words and songs are the tuning. Through this a great deal of our energy is being spent. If we use energy for good, it does not matter. By wicked words and wicked deeds we waste our energy. Through that the span of life grows shorter. The good dispositions within us are nowhere to be found. Even though we have such good dispositions and good qualities, we are unable to put them to good use. The root cause of this is that Satya and Prema are wasting away in us. So we must put Satya and Dharma into practice. Many are making efforts of various kinds to spread Satya and Dharma. Spreading is for a thing that does not exist. Why spread Satya and Dharma, which are everywhere? Practice is more needed than spreading. We must keep it in practice. I do not like wasting time by spreading it. It is enough if we practise one thing. Spreading is only quantity. But practice is quality. Quantity is not what matters. Quality is what matters. When we put even a small part into practice, that very part stands as our ideal. The mind of man today is taking on a greatly distorted form. This distorted mind gives only sorrow. It destroys humanness. We must enquire into the divine principle of the Ātma. What we have enquired into we must put into practice.
The jīva and God are one
Young men! After your studies you enter jobs of many kinds and earn money. But in what way are you using this money you have earned? Each of you must ask himself. Am I putting it to good use? Am I misusing it? There are four parts in ceiling on desires. Don't waste food. Food is God. Don't waste time, time is God. Don't waste money, misuse of money is evil. Don't waste energy. All these are very precious. See no evil, see what is good. Talk no evil, talk what is good. Hear no evil, hear what is good. Think no evil, think what is good. Do no evil, do what is good. These are truly the sacred actions the young must do. There is no need to take great pains. You said in your report, ‘Do meditation. Do bhajans. Go to the villages and do service’. All these are bound up with toil. Whatever work you do, whatever words you speak, whatever place you go to, without any toil, you must install in your heart the feeling that everything is ‘for the pleasure of God’. When you do things with that feeling, no sādhana is needed. But such a sacred feeling does not come to us so easily. So we must practise good deeds such as japa, dhyāna and bhajan. What is meditation? Today many changes are taking place in the word meditation. Our very life is a meditation. When walking, if we walk without watching the path, we meet with an accident. Walking, reading, talking, writing: it is all concentration, meditation way of life. This is not something we practise anew. It is not something we acquire anew. It is there as the chief value in our life. You are meditating on objects. You are meditating on the road. You are meditating on the things of the senses. Turn this very thing towards God. A change will come. Work will be transformed into worship. That is meditation. Turn your vision and your feeling from Prakṛti towards Paramātma. Work is not one thing and worship another. Prakṛti is not one thing and Paramātma another. The jīva is not one thing and God another. The two are one. Reaction, reflection and resound.
Śraddhāvān labhate jñānam
Divinity is contained in humanness. We need not search somewhere for Divinity. When you develop the faith that such Divinity is in you yourself, you will not set out to do wrong in the least. So we must strengthen that faith today. That very faith must be our breath. ‘Śraddhāvān labhate jñānam’. Only when we develop this śraddhā does Jñāna arise in us.