In plain words
Even when you speak truth, it must be a pleasing truth. Even though it is true, you should not speak a truth that is unpleasant to the other person. An unpleasant truth also hurts him. ‘Anudvegakaraṃ vākyaṃ satyaṃ priyahitaṃ ca yat’. In what is true there should be neither agitation nor unpleasantness. So the truth too must be pleasing; you should not speak even a truth that is unpleasant. This itself is Dharma.
The Ātma principle is known by experience alone
Now, what does spiritual mean? Satyaṃ brūyāt is the moral. Na brūyāt satyam apriyam. And when Dharma is on such a path, the very ideal for it is the spiritual. What then does this spiritual mean? To awaken the Ātma principle is itself the spiritual. Where is this Ātma principle? It is everywhere. But to recognise it is very hard. To search for it is harder still. That is why people today fall into many kinds of doubt about what the Ātma principle is. We can take this Ātma principle as a small example. It is not seen by the eye. It has no form to catch hold of. There is air around us. Without air we cannot live. But is that air seen by our eyes? No. How can you catch hold of air that is not seen even by the eye? So we must bring home this spiritual principle by experience.
Only one who has human values is a human being
In man there is the form of the five elements. There is the support of the five sheaths. There is the principle of the five vital airs. We must inquire well into the principle of these five elements. The powers of humanness are five, in man. Satya, Dharma, Śānti, Prema, Ahiṃsā. These five are the human values in man. What are human values? However long it is since he was born a man, if he has no human values he is no man at all.