In plain words
But what has become of that I today? Ego has attached itself to the I. Because it is an I joined with Ahaṅkāra, it has turned into eye. When there is no Ahaṅkāra, there is only the one-letter I. When Ahaṅkāra comes in, it becomes eye. It has turned into the three-letter eye. This three-letter eye is the body. The one-letter I is the Ātma. This very principle of the Ātma is svadharma. This very principle of the body is paradharma. Paradharma belongs to Prakṛti. Svadharma belongs to the principle of the jīva. In svadharma no faults arise. In paradharma everything is full of faults. So if man today is to enter the path that belongs to svadharma, we must recognise five kinds of principles. One is evenness in nature. The second is evenness in society, the third evenness in Jñāna, the fourth evenness in Bhakti, the fifth evenness in karma. Only when we recognise the evenness of these five will our divinity become clear to us.
First of all we must try to recognise evenness in nature. How does it stand with the evenness of nature? We go on experiencing heat and cold. In summer it is very hot. In winter it is cool. It is cold. This sun and this cold are opposites. This is natural. Yet at one time the sun comforts us. At another time the cold brings us delight. That is, in summer the cold comforts us. In winter the heat is what comforts us. All in all, this heat and this cold both give us nothing but comfort. A time difference. So how are we to take this evenness? Heat gives us joy. Cold, too, is giving us joy. But the seasons differ. Its inner meaning is that both of them bring us comfort.
Man needs both. Joy and sorrow are common to man. But from what do these joys and sorrows come to us? With death, sorrow comes to us. Birth brings gladness. But is death the cause of our sorrow? No, no. Death is not the cause of sorrow at all. We must try to grasp the secret in this. If death by itself brought sorrow, death would have to give sorrow to everyone? But it does not give sorrow to everyone. Fondness for that dead body gives us sorrow. If we think that dead body has no connection with us at all, we have no sorrow whatever. What gave you sorrow was not death. The attachment you had to the dead body gave you sorrow.