Passage 2

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In plain words

He gives value to money, but no value to virtue. He achieves many great feats, but the Ānanda of the Ātma he cannot achieve. He cannot recognise the truth that it is for attaining the Ānanda of the Ātma that he has been granted a human birth.

In English a human being is called Man. What is its inner meaning? M: you must give up Māyā; A: you must see the Ātma; N: you must attain Nirvāṇa. This is the inner meaning of the word MAN. Man: what is the goal of his life? To that question he cannot find the answer. If he learns the answer to this question, he becomes one who knows everything in the world. Man is filled with Vijñāna, Sujñāna and Prajñāna. But man courts ignorance, which stands far from him, and does not inquire into the principle of Jñāna that is within him. That is why the need has arisen today for us to spread human values.

Prabhāva and svabhāva

Man today gives way to prabhāva, forgets his svabhāva and lets his life go to dust; prabhāva, you could say, is prārabdha. The uprooting of prārabdha is man's svabhāva. Svabhāva means the qualities of humanness, the attributes natural to man. “Sva - bhāvaṃ” means that the feeling of the Ātma is itself svabhāva. Satya, Dharma, Śānti and Prema are precisely the feelings of the Ātma. These came forth together with man; they were not born after man. Only because he forgets this svabhāva does man give way to an invented prabhāva and scramble after name and fame, after money, gold, goods, vehicles and the like. Let virtue go if it goes, let the Dharma of humanness come to whatever it may: he thinks it is enough to have money. Money too is certainly needed. But among the four puruṣārthas, Dharma, Artha, Kāma and Mokṣa, Artha comes only after Dharma. But the man of today forgets Dharma and tries to earn money unjustly, crookedly and against Dharma.