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In plain words
Born in the water, staying in the water, the bubble sinks back into the water: man is the bubble, Nārāyaṇa is the water.
So every being has arisen in the very water that is Nārāyaṇa; birth, fulfilment and goal have all come forth from one single aim. So āmuṣmika education is the very thing that makes us recognise the Lord of all, the support of all; but in this modern age many elders, politicians and spiritual teachers have gone on preaching and spreading their views in the world in many ways. A weak belief is growing in man that if he has cloth to wear, food to eat, a house to live in, medicine to cure him when illness comes, and some education or other to fill his stomach, he will enjoy happiness and Śānti; but he does not see that physical comforts cannot give him happiness and Śānti. Happiness and Śānti come from the level of the Ātma, not from other things; there are plenty of people with physical comforts. But do they truly enjoy happiness and Śānti? No. Physical comforts bring only the pleasures of this world; they cannot give the Ānanda of the world beyond. Then who is man? Is he made only of blood and flesh, bones and skin? If that were so, he would have found contentment and Śānti in physical comforts alone; but man is not made only of blood and flesh: this is only his physical form. This is the gross form. To it belong the subtle Manas and, beyond that, the Ātma, called the causal. Man has the gross, subtle and causal bodies. What lives on physical pleasures is the gross body alone, not the subtle and causal bodies. We forget the subtle and causal bodies, which are the greater part. So we must teach the children well the Satya that it is through the subtle and causal bodies that happiness and Śānti come. That is why, in the language of Vedānta, they said, ‘Manayeva manuṣyāṇāṃ kāraṇaṃ bandha mokṣayoḥ.’ The Manas alone is the cause of bondage and Mokṣa, not the body. Every single man yearns for Śānti of mind. For the sake of happiness and Śānti, man must set about doing some good deeds with this body and with pure feelings. Man longs for happiness and thirsts for Ānanda. Man, who is both, makes no inquiry into where his happiness and Ānanda come from; by entering only on the path of physical, worldly pleasures, he loses his true happiness. Where does Ānanda truly come from? Does it come from outside? No: Ānanda is natural to us. It is our very nature. As sweetness is natural to sugar, as fragrance is natural to a flower, so Ānanda is natural to man. That is why, when we are going along the street in some bazaar and a man on the way is crying his heart out, we ask, ‘Sir, why are you crying like that?’ What is the inner meaning of asking this? Man, who should be rejoicing, is crying. What is the cause of this crying? Crying is unnatural. But when someone is happy, we do not ask them, ‘Why are you not sad?’