In plain words
The principle of 'I' is the very divine principle that dwells within all beings!
When we take as our basis the essence of the words ‘Eko vasi sarvabhūtāntarātma’, the one God is present in everyone as the Ātma; and when we carry on the enquiry 'I, I, I', we need to recognise the truth that the 'I' which set out as 'I' is itself 'I'. So this principle of 'I' is the very divine principle that dwells within all beings! We must not think of the Bhagavad Gītā alone as the Bhagavad Gītā. All the scriptures that speak of God are Bhagavad Gītās! All the religious scriptures teach of God alone. So we must hold them all to be Bhagavad Gītās. Only when we recognise such unity in multiplicity will the principle of the Ātma, which is divinity, become clear to us. We must not waste our life through mere narrow feelings, in differences such as caste, religion and class. This Bhagavad Gītā is filled with tattva-Jñāna. What does tattva mean? 'Tvam' belongs to the station of the jīva. 'Tat' belongs to the station of Īśvara. So only when the ‘tvam’ that holds the principle of the jīva is joined to the ‘tat’ that holds the nature of Īśvara does it become ‘tattvam’. In short, the Jñāna in which the jīva and Īśvara are blended is itself the tattva-Jñāna called the Bhagavad Gītā. The union of Prakṛti and the Paramātma is tattva-Jñāna. The union of the Ātma and the non-Ātma is tattva-Jñāna. Through narrow feelings, we have been confining so vast and sacred a scripture to mere worship.
We must experience the Bhagavad Gītā in practice
We must experience the essence of this Gītā in practice; merely to pass the time in recitations and sermons is a wrong path. We must also recognise, to some extent, the true principle of this sacred scripture. The moment we open the Bhagavad Gītā, we read ‘Dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca’, ‘Kṛṣṇa uvāca’, ‘Arjuna uvāca’, ‘Sañjaya uvāca’, thinking of Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna merely as embodied beings. Thinking of Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna in this way as embodied beings, however long we recite and propagate the Bhagavad Gītā, we cannot experience the divine principle in the least.