In plain words
Where we experience is one place, and where we listen is another. So we must recognise a small matter well. Where does rain come from? From the cloud. Where did the water in the cloud come from? Through the sun's heat it turned into vapour. Where did that vapour come from? From the ocean. The ocean's water turns into vapour, gathers in the clouds, falls as rain, flows in streams, joins the rivers and goes back into the ocean. That is why: to go back to where it was born is the nature of every living being; the water goes back to the very place where it was born and merges there. Here is a vessel. An earthen vessel. Where was this vessel born? It was born from clay. This vessel born of clay slipped from the hand and fell down. It broke into pieces. Nobody wants it. We leave it right there. People tread on it and walk over it, they work it over in many ways, and it becomes like clay again. The pot that came from clay goes back into the clay itself. Where did man come from? In the Bhagavad Gītā: mamaivāṃśo jīvaloke jīvabhūtas sanātanaḥ. My dear! You came from Me alone. When you say you came from Me, those who came from Him must go back and merge in Him alone; what is the use of coming from somewhere and going off somewhere else?
A man left his village on some business and reached the city. But once he has finished his work in that city he does not stay there a moment longer; he goes back to where he set out from, his own village. However attractive things may be in the city, however precious the things he sees, however fine the food, though the hotel has good Dunlop beds, sofas and air conditioning, he has no liking for staying there. Once his work is done he takes no ease or rest there at all. He sets out for his own village. In the same way, we are pilgrims to the field of karma. We have come to this unreal world. We must recognise our Satya and set out for our own home. So this is only a path of Satya that proves one Satya. In everything, Satya is held within. Scientists keep saying: the atom is very fundamental. It cannot be seen by the eye. They say everything has come from it. No, no. 'Truth is more fundamental than atom,' they said. For this atom too, truth is the foundation. That is why: satyaṃ nāsti paro dharmaḥ; we must recognise this truth. Every man, even knowing Satya, brings in untruth for the sake of a worldly life.
An example. A great king was a keeper of the word of Satya. His name was Satyakāma. This is a great principle found in the Upaniṣads. It being moonlit, … one night, after his meal, he was going out for a walk.