In plain words
For Ātma-jñāna, Change the Vision of Prakṛti into the Vision of Paramātma
Śānti, Śānti, Śānti. Where does Śānti come to us from? Śānti, Satya, compassion, Dharma: these are not things found in the outer world. You are the embodiment of peace, you are the embodiment of truth, you are the embodiment of God. Everything is within you. So, developing this feeling from childhood, you must gain samyak dṛṣṭi. Only when you develop samyak dṛṣṭi does samyak bhāva show itself. These feelings must turn into feelings of the heart. They must spring from the heart. They must not come merely from the lips. Only when they come from the heart does it become samyak śravaṇa. Through samyak śravaṇa samyak speech comes to us. First of all, samyak dṛṣṭi. So, see no evil, see what is good. First of all, what is good and what is bad? How do you come to know it? Here your conscience stands as your witness. We must keep our vision under control very carefully. Without right vision, however many sādhanas you do, they are useless. A small example. When you go to dig a well on the seashore, only salt water comes into that well; sweet water does not come. In the same way, when you do worldly sādhanas in this world of Prakṛti, only worldly results come. How can sweet water come? In the same way, when you lead your life with a worldly vision, how will the spiritual principle of Jñāna come to you? So, if Ātma-jñāna is to come to us, first of all we must move away from the worldly vision. Or else we must change the worldly vision into the vision of Paramātma.
So from that day on the Buddha went on spreading what is called samyak dṛṣṭi. When you cultivate samyak dṛṣṭi, samyak bhāva comes naturally. Only when this samyak bhāva develops in us does samyak vāk also come. Samyak śravaṇa comes. So, when in life we experience in the right way even these five elements God has given, this is the root cause of sākṣātkāra. Unable to recognise this truth, men keep on doing so very many sādhanas.