In plain words
But broad feelings are not growing in us; only narrow feelings are coming up. With narrow feelings, however many books you read and however much charity you give, there is no benefit.
The vision of samanvaya
However much of the Vedas and Vedāṅgas one reads, what use is it? Along with these studies, one must study the learning that brings about samanvaya. One must study the learning that brings one to the state of Vaikuṇṭha. That does not come from books and gurus. It comes from enquiry. Everyone needs enquiry. That enquiry must take a collective form. If you think of it individually, the satisfaction is yours alone. But collective enquiry leads to the satisfaction of God. One tree is not a forest. One house is not a village. One person is not a society. Thousands of trees together make a forest. Hundreds of houses together make a village. When a number of people come together, there is a society. The individual outlook leads to selfishness. One who goes the way of self-interest does not understand the good of others. The learned man tries to bring his own sentences into accord, but he cannot give society a high ideal. We must develop the purity and breadth that belong to the collective. For that, samanvaya and sāmarasya are very necessary. Without samanvaya, a person has to face nothing but bondage in everything.
The mind is infatuated with the body alone. This is made of the five elements. It is made with the five prāṇas and the five kośas. Where are these kośas? The kośas are there as the husk clings to the rice, as a sword is in its sheath. The first is the annamaya kośa. The gross body itself is the annamaya kośa. Within the annamaya kośa is the prāṇamaya kośa; within the prāṇamaya kośa, the manomaya kośa; within the manomaya kośa, the vijñānamaya kośa. The ānandamaya kośa is contained within the annamaya kośa itself. They are like covers, one to another. Because one is split off from another they have been called kośas, but they are not apart.