Passage 12

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In plain words

There is no divinity higher than Satya. This Satya is a Satya that holds good in all three times. Only what exists in all three times is Satya. What is there in one time and not in another is not Satya. It is indivisible. But what is the difference between fact and Satya? When you see him, he may be wearing a suit. When you see him the next day, he may be in a lungi and a vest. Today that is indeed fact. What you saw the next day is fact too. But the dress you saw today is not there the next day. So that is not Satya. Only what does not change whenever you look is Satya. This very thing the Bhagavad Gītā called ṛtam. So sacred is Satya. People think that telling what was done as it was done, what was seen as it was seen, what was said as it was said, is Satya. That is not Satya. That is worldly Satya, the Satya of Prakṛti, but this is not the right Satya. It is pravṛtti Satya, to be sure. Nivṛtti Satya holds good in all three times. Only what undergoes no change in past, future and present is true ṛtam. Students! You must try to see that all the words you speak are pure and lasting. You may have a doubt whether we will attain divinity or not. But make divinity shine out in your words. How is it to be done? You can't always oblige, but you can speak always obligingly. That itself is enough. Try to speak sweetly, lovingly and little. I keep telling all the children from time to time: Talk less, work more. You must keep doing good work. One who talks cannot work. One who works cannot talk. Both cannot happen. Hold pure feelings and carry on your conversation with others. Through this, man's memory grows. Not only memory: you will have developed the strength of the Ātma too. Why does what you have read not stay in your memory? What you have read is broken up in talk. Keep going back over what you have read, turning it over in manana. Put what you have turned over in manana into nididhyāsa. Śravaṇa, manana, nididhyāsa: these three are most necessary. What are these three like? Cooking in the kitchen is śravaṇa. Bringing it to the dining hall is manana.