In plain words
We must begin with listening. Through that divine listening, feeling arises. So every act we do here in this jñāna yajña is filled with sacred feelings. This is not something done with the idea, ‘Some people or other in the world are doing yajñas, and we are doing one too.’ A “yajña” is what is done with complete sacrifice. We have no desires whatever. No wishes whatever. Only for the welfare of the world, for the joy and well-being of all, with the aspiration that all may become whole of heart, is this jñāna yajña being conducted. A famine has come in the country, and some think they must hold yajñas to put an end to this famine. But what are these famines? They come and they go. I make no effort at all for such petty aims. Whatever we do, we must do it as something lasting. Whatever it may be, we must do it as something eternal and true. It must be sacred. It must be something that brings fulfilment. So may you hear tomorrow the principle of these Upaniṣads and its inner meaning!