In plain words
They can say, ‘This is not it,’ but to say, ‘This is Brahman,’ is beyond their power. Satya and eternal, Jñāna and infinite: that itself is Brahman, and words cannot reach it.
Students, embodiments of the sacred Ātma!
Man thinks of one thing and receives another. In this, we build our ideas as fancies on the sandbanks of human life, like sparrows' nests; then, like some gale, feelings opposed to us rise up and even go so far as to bring our thoughts crashing to the ground. Life itself is like a long garland. It is made as a garland whose two ends are joined, the ends called birth and death, and between them this garland is strung with flowers called dreams, troubles, turmoil, unrest, sorrows and joys. But we must decide whether we take life itself as the garland, or believe that the body's tie itself is the garland. When we believe in this state that joins the two ends called birth and death, it becomes clear to us that birth and death belong to the body alone, and not to the jīva. So the truth becomes clear that hardships and losses, pleasures and pains, sufferings, dreams and turmoil all have to do with the body alone, not with the jīva. Many changes come to the body, but no change of any kind comes to the Ātma. But the Ātma, eternal, Satya, stainless and selfless, shows as its own proof a nature full of Ānanda. Indeed, because this body has the stages called childhood, youth, manhood and old age, the work this body does also undergoes changes of several kinds in keeping with these stages.