Difference between Inward and Outward Path

The scriptures have declared that it is difficult to acquire a human body. Human life is the highest among all living beings in creation. With all these endowments if people lack jnana (wisdom), they are no better than an animal. It is wisdom that distinguishes man from other animals. In spite of possessing a human body with its sacred capacities, people pursue wrong paths and indulge in misdeeds, thereby degrading their precious heritage. One who ought to dedicate oneself to the pursuit of the Divine - Nivritti marga (the inward path) and experience bliss, makes oneself a slave of the senses and wastes one's life in the pursuit of the external - Pravritti marga (the outward path). All efforts are directed towards the cultivation of sensual pleasures instead of aiming at realisation of the power of the Spirit within. It is this preoccupation with the mundane that is at the root of all the insecurity and unhappiness experienced by man.

The best spiritual discipline is to strengthen your inward vision. - Baba

In today's thought for the day Baba mentions the scriptures and how difficult it is to acquire a human body and we should make the best use of it. 
If people lack wisdom or knowledge, we are not better than an animal. It is the wisdom that distinguishes man from the animal.



It is about truth, the human values and simple stories are often the best way of getting aware of it, there is no use of separating the human values, we should see their connection and oneness. If we want to experience pure love, we need three things, we have to understand peace, we need to accept truth and we have to accept right action and only when we have those three things, truth (sathya), right action (dharma), and peace (shanti), we are able to experience pure love, (prema). 
Some were looking for synonyms and have now a list of more than 120 values in all shades that means going into details and separating it instead of synthesizing it, we have to find the oneness in the human values and one way to realize that oneness is to listen to his words. If we make just more human values out of it our mind thinks we have to acquire those qualities and that is outside, it is in our imagination and not in reality, if we listen to his words we will notice that he never said not once that we should look at the human values go into details, but he tells us in about every second sentence that we should go for the oneness in it. 
Instead of seeing the oneness and connection between the human values, what is after all love only what makes sense, the mind does something else and find its own way of seeing it so that we can stay in the mind and the oneness gets lost. Instead of getting aware of the truth in the moment, now, we make some qualities out of it and try to become like that, instead of being it in the now. That is not the meaning of the human values, they are like a help or stepping stones to oneness and that is after all pure love. 

The scriptures have declared that it is difficult to acquire a human body. Human life is the highest among all living beings in creation. With all these endowments if people lack jnana (wisdom), they are no better than an animal. It is wisdom that distinguishes man from other animals. In spite of possessing a human body with its sacred capacities, people pursue wrong paths and indulge in misdeeds, thereby degrading their precious heritage. One who ought to dedicate oneself to the pursuit of the Divine - Nivritti marga (the inward path) and experience bliss, makes oneself a slave of the senses and wastes one's life in the pursuit of the external - Pravritti marga (the outward path).

It is about the difference between the inward path and the outward path. If all efforts are made towards the cultivation of pleasure of the senses and not in the realization of the power of the spirit within, we are in the mind and on the outward path. 
We look at the power within by thinking over his words.