In plain words
To revile others is a great sin. So we must not go near it. If you like reviling, revile yourself. Ask yourself, “Born a human being, am I doing the work a human being should do?” Criticise yourself, revile yourself, punish yourself. This is true sādhana. Sādhana does not mean doing japa; it does not mean doing dhyāna. To rid yourself of the faults within you: that is true sādhana. To drive away bad qualities and foster good ones is the right sādhana. ‘Sā’ means the Īśvara principle, the embodiment of every splendour. That alone is our dhana. To some, anger comes in an instant. This is a very bad quality. Each one's anger kills that very person. “One's own anger is one's enemy; one's own Śānti is one's protection; kindness is one's kin; one's own joy is heaven; one's own sorrow is hell...”
Outer sight is the mark of the animal, inner sight the mark of man
It is only because man today cannot recognise his own faults that he is forever sunk in sorrow. To think, ‘I am great, and others are small and simple,’ is a great mistake. In every human being, in every living being, there is divinity. Otherwise, why do they say, “Īśvaraḥ sarvabhūtānām”? “God in human form.” So if we look on people as embodiments of God, we will criticise no one any more. God looks at the feeling, not at outward acts. God loves the feeling. But man fixes his eyes on outward acts alone. “Paśyatīti paśuḥ”: that which has outer sight is the animal; he who has inner sight is man. Wherever an animal sees green grass, it runs there at once. Is it a field of crops? Is there a watchman over it? It does not stop to wonder whether he will punish it if it goes there. Before he does any work, man must inquire into its good and bad. He must carry out his duty. But man today forgets his duty. This is the great fault in man. When we mean to travel by a plane or a bus and it does not come on time, how we curse it!