In plain words
With this very Prema we must turn it into Ahiṃsā.
Samyak Darśanam
‘Ahiṃsā paramo dharmaḥ,’ said the Buddha. He did tapas for many years. In the end He could recognise nothing. He visited many elders. He heard all their many teachings. But He understood nothing at all. Then He reflected. ‘The root cause of everything is samyak dṛṣṭi,’ He said. ‘If the vision is sacred, everything turns wholly sacred,’ He said. When samyak dṛṣṭi came, samyak bhāva arose. As soon as there was samyak bhāva, samyak vāk came. As soon as samyak vāk came, it became samyak karma. ‘Samyak karmas themselves are samyak sādhana,’ they said. When you hold sacred feelings, that itself turns into karma. That karma itself turns into sādhana. In the Bhagavad Gītā it was said, “Karmaṇyeva adhikāraste mā phaleṣu kadācana.” Through karma alone we must recognise the right dharma. “Karmānu bandhīni manuṣyaloke”: what has bound man, too, is karma itself. So we must do good deeds. Good feelings dwell in those good deeds alone. True Prema dwells in this good feeling alone. True vision dwells in this true Prema alone. Samyak dṛṣṭi, samyak bhāva, samyak karma, samyak vāk, samyak sādhana: these five we must take as the five elements.
The Five Kośas Explained
In every man there are five kośas. The very first is the annamaya kośa, samyak dṛṣṭi. We are able to see the body, which is the annamaya kośa. We cannot see the mind. The second is the prāṇamaya. The prāṇamaya, too, we cannot see. That itself lies hidden within us. That very prāṇa is what keeps protecting this body. The third is samyak karma. Through the principle of the mind, that itself gets these karmas carried out. Through these karmas, feeling grows. Through feeling, samyak sādhana takes shape. First of all, look after the body, which is the annamaya kośa. You must set this body, the annamaya kośa, on a sacred path.