In plain words
The policeman told the one who had paid the charge to go away, and told this owner to take the bundle. Somehow, poor fellow, he too took a couple of canes and went off. In this way man has the sense of “mine” even in the smallest matters: “Mine!” What is this “mine”? It is because he fosters so much sense of “mine” that man falls into unrest of so many kinds.
Faith in God must be your very breath
So first of all one must recognise the principle of God for oneself. One must strengthen the faith, “I am God.” Who is Śiva? Let us take a small example. Having gone through every kind of experience in life, a body has given up its breath. Seeing this dead body, we call it śavam. Seeing a living body, we call it śivam. What is the difference between śivam and śavam? In śivam there is breath, its own true form. In śavam there is no breath. What has no breath is śavam. What has breath is śivam. What is this breath? Viśvāsa. What has faith in God is śivam. What has no faith in God is śavam. What does that mean? This breath in oneself is one's own true form. So-ham; so-ham. In this way, with each breath in and out, a man keeps declaring his own nature.
What does Soham mean? What does “so” mean? “That.” What does “ham” mean? “I.” This is “tat tvam asi”. That is the mahāvākya “ahaṃ brahmasmi”. How does it teach us this? How many times does it teach it? In a single day, 21,600 times, it teaches us, “Soham: I am God.” We do not heed it. We take what is in books somewhere and put it into our heads. Do we put what is in our heads into practice? Then what is the use of this bookish knowledge? So I keep telling all our children. Knowledge is of five kinds. Children, above all, this bookish knowledge is of no use at all.