In plain words
Selfishness must go, first of all. Self-interest must go. Sacrifice must come. Only then will the power of the mandir and the growth of the mandir make us enjoy Ānanda in full. So in anything at all, as long as there is selfishness, there is no room whatever for growth. So what man must learn today is this: he must give up selfishness. Look at any devotee and he seems ever so great a devotee, but look at his deeds and it is all nothing but selfishness. From foot to head, nothing but selfishness. Where is sacrifice, where is Vairāgya? There is none at all. Vairāgya must arise. What is Vairāgya? Detachment from worldly things must come. Attachment to God must grow. Attachment to God, detachment from worldly things: these two alone are true fulfilment. But today detachment is nowhere to be seen. Even an old man about to die has selfishness. When the doctor comes to give him an injection, he says, “Give it gently, give it without pain.” For a man who is dying, what if it hurts? Whatever happens, what of it? So deeply is man sunk in selfishness. That is exactly why, if there is to be spiritual growth in man, he must enter the morality called satyaṃ brūyāt. What we call morality is nowhere to be seen.
Our Religion Is the Good of Society Itself
Wherever you look in society, people are criticising one another, reviling one another, hurting one another; this alone is what happens, but unity is nowhere to be seen in society. When this unity is lacking, humanness goes on as a solitary life. This itself is a vice. An evil thought: this itself is bad company. On the day man gives up his selfishness, on that very day he makes society broad. Expansion love is needed, not contraction love. This selfish Prema is contraction love. Expansion love means: I, you, they, all are one and the same. The broad feeling for society that says, “Just as I live happily today, in just that way all in society must live in comfort,” must enter each and every one. Broad feelings for society are nowhere to be seen. He himself, his family, his relatives, his friends, and that is all; whatever becomes of the rest, what is it to me?