In plain words
These stars, the sun, the moon and the earth, all of them together, make up this bhūtākāśa. This whole bhūtākāśa is contained in cittākāśa. What is this cittākāśa? All the sights we have seen remain in our citta in the form of tiny atoms. This whole bhūtākāśa remains in this cittākāśa in a small form. That is the principle of the mind. This principle of Manas is contained still further in cidākāśa. This cidākāśa is the form of the Ātma. Bhūtākāśa and cittākāśa are contained in this very Ātma. That is, because the whole cosmos is contained in this principle of the Ātma, we can recognise that the Ātma is everything.
Our chief duty is to experience this Ānanda of the Ātma. Though we are full of Ānanda, we try in many ways to search for Ānanda in the outer world. We must turn our vision inward. As long as our vision wanders outward, this Ānanda of the Ātma will not be ours. The musk deer, they say, catches some scent and roams the whole forest, wondering where the scent of musk comes from. Roaming and roaming, this musk deer grew tired. It wanted to sit in a cool shade and rest. Being tired, it put its nose near its navel and tried to sleep. At once the scent of musk began there. Little by little it recognised that this scent was coming from itself. Then this deer no longer wandered anywhere and stayed still in one place. In the same way, man today roams everywhere in the world, thinking this Ānanda is in the outer world. ‘In which job will I find Ānanda?’ he wonders, and he scrambles after jobs. ‘In which business will I find Ānanda?’ he wonders, and he sinks in business. ‘In which farming will I find Ānanda?’ he wonders, and he toils day and night at farming. His Ānanda is not in farming, not in business, not in a job; his Ānanda is right within himself. So as long as man turns his vision outward, he stays far from Ānanda. On the day he turns his vision inward, on that very day he experiences true Ānanda. That is undying Ānanda. That is the Ānanda of the Ātma. That is the Ānanda of immortality. Man does not come anywhere near the efforts he should make for such Ānanda. He knows that worldly pleasures are momentary. Even knowing it, he does not try to recognise it. He develops his intelligence outwardly, but he does not develop it inwardly. He carries out all the research he wants. Scientists carry out outward research in their sciences and recognise only outward truths. But through this research they do not understand inner Ānanda. When one longs to experience the Ānanda of the Ātma, such a man must try to restrain his outward vision to some extent.