Passage 2

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In plain words

Understanding one another, you must ‘adjust’. If you ‘understand’, ‘adjustment’ becomes easy. Recognise first of all the truth that Swami teaches all this with great Prema, for your good alone.

Today science is advancing day by day. But since all the research that scientists do lies merely within the range of the ‘senses’, many mistakes occur in it. Through today's scientists, more harm than good comes to society. They say they are giving help, but in truth they are causing hurt in many ways. As a result, man today has to live in fear and bewilderment. Fear at boarding an aeroplane! Fear even at the sight of a little mouse! Fear of everything! Through this fear, many kinds of delusions are growing. So we must not be afraid of anything. But now there is fear even in eating vegetables! Fear even in eating fruit! Who knows what diseases will come from them! For all of these are being produced with certain kinds of chemicals. Our food, our drinking water, the air we take in: all have become polluted. In such a situation, how can we protect our health? So we must put an end to this ‘pollution’. We must not ruin our health by eating, for the sake of taste, things that ought not to be eaten. If you protect your health, healthy children will be born to you. To give children mental growth along with bodily health, you must put them in Bal Vikas and give them good teaching.

If you want Śānti, you must follow Satya

Speak nothing but the truth, whatever the situation. Not only that: whoever blames you, whatever they say, stay calm. In olden times the ṛṣis all kept silence. Silence helps greatly in making sādhana fruitful. Only when we follow Satya does Śānti come to us.