In plain words
… downfall … If you use Manas as a weapon, the attainment of Mokṣa too is gained through it: ‘For men, Manas alone is the cause of bondage and Mokṣa.’ When I look at those who … Manas …, I am reminded of something. … putting colour on the lips … it is as though … had been brought about: such is the way of life of people today. What is this? Is it a human life, …, a machine …? You are left wondering, when you see their artificial life …!
Their life does not come from the seat of the heart. Their words go one way; no conduct to match them is to be seen. The pictures you see on the cinema screen move very fast before the lamp and fall on the screen, and so they seem to be doing all kinds of things; but all of them are simply standing still, each in its own place. Nor is it those pictures that speak; all the sounds arise from the Sound Track joined to them. Even when you know that the people you see in a film are merely made up, as you keep watching them … the agitations of the mind … quite naturally …, isn't that so? When you travel in trains and in buses …
This earth … is turning; and yet, as though the earth … still, Manas itself … , and the illusion arises in us. The truth as it is, is one thing! The truth as it is seen is another! Attributing to … the joys and sorrows that arise in … is a great delusion! Joys and sorrows are only agitations of the mind; they have no connection at all with the jīvātma. Manas alone is the cause of good and bad.
This body is impermanent; humanness is eternal. But if you lead your life in the noblest way, as a life that is an ideal, you can win undying fame. Immortality does not mean living without death! That is only a wrong meaning; it can never be the true one. Though you die, your name living on, undying, through your conduct and your deeds: that alone is immortality! If your deeds are pure, the beings yet to come will also try to follow them.