In plain words
Through this mind all sorts of crazy intentions keep coming. Through these intentions we misuse our power. So, to keep evil intentions from coming, we must foster divine intentions. Divine intentions means feeling, “Every drop of blood in my body is the very form of God, every power is divine power, every intention is a divine intention.” But the people of today do not feel this way. They think all these are worldly intentions. This is not right.
Through saṃskāra every thing becomes sacred
We must take every padārtha as parārtha alone. Look at one small thing. We have brought a sack of paddy. What value do we give this sack? We give two hundred rupees. But if we pound this paddy well, clean it and turn it into rice, its value goes up. By separating the husk from the paddy and separating the bran, the price of the rice that comes from it goes up a great deal. The price of rice becomes double the price of paddy. Turning paddy into rice is itself saṃskāra. That itself is the pounding, the removing of the bran, the separating of the husk, the separating of the rice. Do we give paddy as much value as we give rice? No, we do not! Why? The paddy has not been refined. So its value is less. When we refine paddy and turn it into rice, its value goes up. Can we eat paddy? No, no. We can eat rice. So we must make it fit to be eaten. We must give it the saṃskāra it needs. To want everything to come to me easily without doing saṃskāra will not do. As much as one toils, so much is the fruit one gains. ‘Kaṣṭe phale’: the more we toil, the more sacred feelings come. So we must take on toil. We must be refined by that toil. Each and every thing becomes sacred through saṃskāra. You are students. Study comes through saṃskāra. Learning too is a saṃskāra. Eating too is a saṃskāra. Walking too is a saṃskāra. Sitting too is a saṃskāra.