In plain words
… behaving well only in front of the master, doing the right things, keeping to right conduct: we may regard this as nothing more than a kind of animal trait. Just as the animals in the circus are afraid when they see the ring man, in the same way you must not act today as though out of fear on seeing this ring man. Then there will be no difference between those circus animals and these … A change of mind must come. Conduct must change. If the mind itself does not change, the senses will not come under control in the least. If this mind does not follow Buddhi, the mind cannot keep these senses in check at all. So only when the mind follows Buddhi and acts by the command of that Buddhi do these senses come under our control. So the humanness of today, in this … ‘buddhigrāhya matīndriyaṃ’: it sets the whole nature of these senses on a path beyond Buddhi. Man today must recognise a principle like this.
We must recognise human values well. For in humanness the principle of the Ātma, which is divinity, stays firm. There are two examples for this. One is called arithmetic, the other is called the science of friendship. In arithmetic, if you set down 1+1+1+1, it makes 4. When other numbers are added to a number, that number grows. This is arithmetic. What is the science of friendship? Set down I+I+I+I, crores of I. It comes to I, that is all. This I neither grows nor shrinks. It stays steadfast for ever: amṛtasya putraḥ. However many I's are joined, it comes to I; it does not become … Where is this I? Now I shall say a name. When I call out the name I. J. Naidu and ask who you are, he says, ‘I, I.’ Next, when I ask who Vice-Chancellor Sharaf is, he says, ‘I.’ When I ask who Registrar Chakravarti is, he says, ‘I, I.’ When I ask who this Controller Nanjudappa is, this man says, ‘I.’ The form and name of I. J. Naidu are different, quite separate. The Vice-Chancellor's form and name are quite distinct. Registrar Chakravarti's form and name are different. Controller Nanjudayya's form and name are … different, but to My question the answer I came from all four as one. If you ask where this I is: I is everywhere. This I … remains just I. It is not touched in the least by the influence of place, time or person. It is not only while you are in India that you say I. Go to America, go to Russia, go to China, go anywhere else at all, go and settle in Pakistan: you will still say I. That itself is the principle of the Ātma, which does not change. It does not decrease. It does not increase. This very thing is the Human value. The I-principle in everyone is one and the same.