In plain words
But we must also think a little about what the difference is between this Īśvaraprajñā and Ātmaprajñā. Here the feeling that ‘I’ and Jñāna are separate does come to people. Because we think, ‘I am separate, Jñāna is separate,’ a principle that relates the two has come to settle there between them. If there were no substance at all between what is called ‘I’ and what is called Jñāna, it would not even be possible to say, ‘Jñāna is separate, I am separate.’ It is this unseen power that they call jñeya. The very moment this jñeya goes, a dwelling in oneness comes about. So they said that jñeya itself is the basis for the oneness of these three, jñāta, jñeya and Jñāna. When we hide away this thing called jñeya, then Jñāna and jñāta both become one. As for what this jñeya is, it makes one forget the humanness called ‘I’ and makes it merge into what is called Jñāna. A small example of this. There is one who loves. There is one who is loved. But just as Prema makes the lover and the beloved one, between the two of them, in the same way it brings about, for jñāta and Jñāna too, the oneness called jñeya. So when we practise this thing called jñeya in an intense state, it forms the right bond for the oneness of this Jñāna and this jñāta. We can believe the effort that develops such oneness to be the karmas that are limbs of Dharma. For this there are three names: Dharma of the inner kind, Dharma of the gross kind and Dharma of the subtle kind. Dharma travels along three paths, with three natures. Taking the sattva, rajas and tamas guṇas as its ground, developing for itself the principle of Bhakti, Jñāna and karma, understanding for itself the inner feelings too, and making a bond with the divinity in these three: this is Sanātana Dharma. That is, to bring forth divinity even in the sattva, rajas and tamas guṇas; again, to believe in divinity in times past and to come; and further, in our life, to believe in the divinity that belongs to the Ātma even in certain gross, subtle and causal principles: the one faith in these three must be faith in the Ātma.