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In plain words
I am searching, I go on searching still; I searched then and I search now for the true man who holds to Dharma. (I am searching…) There is no shortage of men: there are four hundred crores of them. I saw the form of man, but I could not find his true form. (I am searching…) Like seeing the pods of the silk-cotton tree and mistaking them for mangoes, like seeing the look of wild cane, taking it for sugarcane and chewing it, like seeing the look of alum and chewing it for sugar candy: do not be deceived by looks; his character alone is a man's true form. (I am searching…)
Students, embodiments of the divine Ātma!
A citta unstained by attachment and hatred, speech unstained by Asatya, a body unstained by violence: to believe that the principle which bears these is the principle of the Ātma, which is divinity itself, is itself the chief mark of humanity. Truly, for us to inquire into such matters, the understanding called Prajñāna, Vijñāna and Sujñāna is most essential. When we want such Jñāna to come to us, we must set about developing śraddhā, faith in God, sacrifice and purity. The Rāhu of selfishness has seized this sun of Jñāna. Only when we drive off the Rāhu of selfishness do the rays of this Jñāna come forth for us. As long as he does not put selfishness away, man cannot behold the sun of Jñāna. But first of all we must inquire where this selfishness springs from, what the cause of this selfishness is, and who is the one that desires this selfishness. A traveller, tired, comes to the shade of a tree to rest.