Passage 3

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In plain words

The senses are sinking down into the netherworld. How can science go on without sense? Today it is growing into a science without sense. We must develop science keeping in view the welfare of the people and the welfare of society. Today work that does man any good at all is nowhere to be seen. Work that helps man is nowhere to be seen. Today they talk of science and technology. What is this science, this technology? True science is precisely the control of the senses. The root cause of man's falling into troubles of so many kinds today is the very growth of science. The reason is this: in this science there is no room at all for man's growth. There is no room whatever for man's welfare or for his growth. He wastes all his time merely in bringing things to decline, only in running down the nature of man. So man today must enter into Dharma, follow morality and merge into divinity. Precisely with morality, Dharma and spirituality in view, in ancient times there was satyaṃ brūyāt: this is morality; the second, priyaṃ brūyāt: this is Dharma. Na brūyāt satyam apriyam: this is spirituality. By spirituality we do not mean merely doing japa, doing dhyāna, doing bhajan and the like: these alone are not spirituality. Satyaṃ brūyāt, priyaṃ brūyāt. We must cultivate the Satya that is called pleasing. Today, nowhere do we see Satya. Whatever mouth it comes from, first of all it is Asatya, Asatya. Where is Satya to be seen? That is exactly why, in the Rāmāyaṇa, Satya is Śrī Rāma and Dharma is Sītā. Through the oneness of these two alone, people in those days went on living a divine life. The whole welfare of society rests on Satya and Dharma alone. Today they have lost this Satya and Dharma. Because Satya and Dharma are lost, man looks like a man in form, but he does not appear as an ideal man. Today the ideal man is urgently needed. What is the use of building ever so many mandirs? All these look like nothing more than a blot on humanness.