In plain words
Embodiments of Prema!
What gives light to the world in the hours of night is the moon. What gives light to the world by day is the sun. What gives light to the three worlds is Dharma. Only a good son is fit to uplift his family. As it is said, "the sandalwood that flourishes in the forest", a son of good qualities not only protects his own family but takes shape as an ideal for the world as well. So it is our duty to have faith in the divinity within humanness and to attain purity. What matters most in human life is time. To hold to oneness in this endless time, in this fathomless divinity, in this Supreme Principle that has neither beginning nor end: that is the chief duty of man.
Human life has not come merely for the sake of physical pleasures. Body, Manas and Ahaṅkāra: man is nothing but the union of these three. We must make the effort it takes to make such humanness fruitful. For performing karma the body is essential. For knowing the things of the world, Manas is the support. What brings vision to these two is the Ātma. So we must recognise the inner meaning in these three and take up our humanness. Here doing, knowing and being: these three are words of special weight. The principle of these three is itself the human form. Only through the combined power of these three does humanness come out into the open. The diversity and the unity of these three powers lie only in the one principle of the Ātma. In such a setting you must recognise how special humanness is. It is not merely special. It is divine. We must try to recognise such divine humanness, at least in some measure. So we must recognise the truth that man means precisely the combined form of body, Manas and Ātma.
This Manas has four kinds of states. They have also spoken of this as the antaḥkaraṇa. Manas, Buddhi, citta and Ahaṅkāra: these are its modified forms. Yet the one Manas alone wears all four of these. Though the doer is the body, the knower is Manas and the one who is, is the Ātma, the power that is the ground in these three keeps flowing. When it is joined with resolve and doubt, this very thing we call Manas.