In plain words
Only when some need arises do you utter them with your lips, and the next moment you forget them. These are not things needed one minute and not needed the next. They are needed always! However many tasks you are doing, your breathing in and breathing out does not stop, does it! Do they stop, saying, “Ayyo! Poor fellow! He is sleeping; let us give him some rest”? No! In the same way, always, at all times, everywhere, you must make your feelings full of God. If the whole world changes in this way, there will be no more need to pray “Lokāssamastā ssukhino bhavantu”; all people will go on enjoying Śānti.
Share Śānti, make Śānti grow
First win Śānti in your own home and share it in the bazaar; share the Śānti of the bazaar in the village; share the Śānti of the village in the town..... Go on sharing Śānti in this way! But in these modern times, when unrest comes to one man, he fills his whole house with unrest. Then the people of that house bring unrest upon the people of the bazaar. But you, do not share out unrest in this way. If any unrest should come to you, suffer it within yourselves; drive your unrest away yourselves. Only do not share it with anyone else: you must not share unrest with anyone at all, not with your husband, your wife or your children. To share unrest is a great sin! If Śānti should come to you, by all means share it with everyone. For in Śānti there is no danger; danger lies in unrest alone. What holds danger must not be shared with anyone. Some people call a thing good if they like it, and bad if they do not. There are no greater fools than these. When you have malaria fever, even if someone gives you a laddu you say it tastes bitter. That bitterness is in your tongue alone, not in the laddu. Not searching out the evil within yourselves, but saying it is in those outside: what foolishness! Such people are the very ones who were called rākṣasas. Such evil qualities must not come into you. You must go from humanness to divinity, never sink down to the nature of rākṣasas.
The Vedapuruṣa yajña is for the peace of the world
Embodiments of Prema! Today we have begun what is called the Vedapuruṣa Saptāha Jñāna Yajña, for the welfare of the country and for the peace of the world. Every person must strive for the peace of the world. In the Veda there is divine vibration. So even if you do not understand the Veda, it is enough to listen to it. In that very sound lies Ānanda! At the very first, God was called ‘Śabdabrahmamayi’. If you wish to attain such a God, you must lessen your desires. If you let go of cotton, it flies up; if you let go of a towel, it falls down. That is, only those who are light can rise up. So if you are to rise to a high level, you must lessen the burden called desires. Man must have desires. Without them he cannot live. But if they go beyond limits, they become a burden. One who goes to write an examination may keep two pens in his pocket. If he wants more, he may keep three pens. But is there any sense in going with a pocket full of pens? One who really writes does not need so many pens. In the same way, our longings too must have a limit. If you curb your longings you will prosper ever so much; God too will make you holy by His grace.
In these seven days I shall tell you the nature of the body, the senses, Manas and Buddhi, and after that I shall explain the principle of the Ātma too, clearly. The body, the senses, Manas, Buddhi: all these are upādhis. Only when you rightly discover the state of these upādhis will your own condition improve.