In plain words
First of all, knowledge. Everyone has this knowledge. One may recognise it. One may fail to recognise it. But skill that knowledge. When you skill it, turning inward begins. But you are not skilling it. You are killing it. Because you kill knowledge, inner vision goes. Outer vision comes.’ First of all, we must skill our knowledge. Once that has happened, balance comes well. The man of today has no balance. To go on a bicycle you must have balance. Walking on foot too needs balance. Everything depends on balance alone. This balance has gone. So their state is one of confusion. Vision is turning outward. First of all, you must balance life. Just now they danced. In a dance too, without balance you cannot take a step. All of life depends on balance alone. If balance is to come, you must skill knowledge. That is what they named samyak dṛṣṭi. In each age, under a name of its own, they went on developing this knowledge. The scientists of today too, because of the situation in science, are bringing in many new ways. They pride themselves that they have discovered new things, but it is not new; it is only outward, only physical, only bound up with pravṛtti. It belongs to the negative. To this negative we must join the positive. Then this negative gains value. This is what they called saṃskāra. What does saṃskāra mean? Refining is itself saṃskāra. What does refining mean? There is paddy. For a bag of paddy you paid a hundred rupees. But refine it and turn it into rice: the same bag becomes worth a thousand rupees. How did it rise? Purity came about. We must try to purify our lives. We must try to earn a good name. You must make people say, “Such-and-such a boy, such-and-such a girl, are very good children.” But when we go wrong, it does not end with our own name; the name of our parents also is spoiled. The name of society is spoiled. It is a disgrace to you yourself. So: tell me your company, I shall tell you what you are.