In plain words
If we turn our Manas towards the Ātma, we can easily escape the nature of the moon, the feeling of Manas.
In the same way, God is all-pervading, the indweller of all, all-knowing. But the Ātma principle that is in everyone shines more in some alone, does it not? What is the reason for this! Wherever you look, it is the one current, isn't it? But why is the bedroom bulb dim, and why is the drawing-room bulb bright? Is this a difference in the current? No, no, it is a difference in the bulbs. When our capacity, our taste for the Ātma, our search for the Ātma, is strong in us, that same one appears bright. Keeping our whole aim always on the useless body, Manas, Buddhi, senses, citta and antaḥkaraṇa, if I want bright light to come to me, how will it come? Fixing a bulb that goes on a battery, if you want it to give a great light, how will it give it? We keep following what the śāstra keeps forbidding. The śāstra has forbidden Manas, Buddhi, citta, the senses and the antaḥkaraṇa. Neti neti neti, not this, not this body, not this mind, the senses, not this. The antaḥkaraṇa, not this. So it forbade them. What it forbade, we are accepting. All these are the vestures of the Ātma. These vestures we have taken as our support. The Ātma, which is the support, we are casting away. The instrumental cause is one thing. The instrumental cause means that, taking one thing as the basis, we must develop that form by means of it. The material cause is another. Clay is the material cause. Taking it as the basis, we make pots and pans. This pot and plate are the instrumental causes. The material cause is clay. Clay is there in this vessel. What does that mean? The material cause is there in the instrumental cause too. Only when we take that material cause as the basis does what we call human nature gain full divinity. The instrumental cause cannot exist leaving the material cause. The material cause can exist even leaving the instrumental, but the instrumental cannot exist leaving the material. This is a silver tumbler. The material cause of this silver tumbler is silver. There is silver in this tumbler too. This silver is the material cause. This tumbler is the instrumental cause. In the tumbler, the instrumental cause, there is the silver, the material cause. But take away the silver, the material, and the tumbler, the instrumental, cannot exist. But in God's sight, the material is not one thing and the instrumental another. The material and the instrumental, the two, are one. If we are to make a tumbler, we need silver. Even when there is this silver, there must be a maker to make it. That is, this maker must know the method of how to make a tumbler. What does that mean? The material cause, the instrumental cause, and for it a maker: only by the oneness of the three does a tumbler come into being.