In plain words
Everything we experience in daily life we follow on the authority of the Veda alone. “Jantūnām nara janma durlabham,” says the Śruti. Jan means that which is born. The tiger, the elephant, the dog and the fox: all these are things that are born. They went on giving each one its own name. In the same way they gave this body too, which is born, the name man. Just as they named the dog and the fox, they named this human body man. It is because in man reasoning has grown and Jñāna has perished that he does not believe the Veda. People say, “We have no need of the truth that the Ātma exists.” That very Veda, saying, “Jantūnām nara janma durlabham,” declared, “Man is someone special.” Why should a man who does not believe the word “God exists,” as the Śruti has said, believe the word “I am a man”? What does he know of whether he is a man or not? What does he know of whether he is a man or a dog? You take the words you need from the Veda and say, “I am a man.” Why not accept this too, that God exists?
Man's delusions are the cause of his doubts and misconceptions. There are certain proofs from science. When we set before us a mirror made from earth, we see our reflection in that mirror. But is this reflection in the mirror? No. No. Because of the chemical coated on the back of this mirror, our gaze falls on it and it shows our reflection. That is only a shadow. Our reflection is not in it. Seeing the image, we take it to be real. This is not real. This is the reverse. For when you see your reflection in a mirror, the right eye appears as the left eye. How can you say that it is real? It shows what is there in reverse. In just the same way this Prakṛti is one great mirror. But we take the reversed forms seen in it for real. All are the forms of God. The one God has taken on many forms. All religions accept this very thing. In the Bible it says, “God created man in His own image.” In the Veda too they have taught, “Ēkōhaṃ bahusyām: all forms are Mine.” People who think that all is the form of God forget God, and, forgetting the world altogether, lead lives opposed to the world. We think our senses do their work by themselves. Students! The Manas alone is the root cause of everything.
If we recognise the nature of the Manas, a mighty principle begins within us. The eye appears to us as a sense. The mouth is seen by us as a sense. The ear appears as a sense.