In plain words
In whom do all living beings delight? In the one who holds to Satya, humble and sweet of speech. Who is the blind man on this earth? The one who has learning and still does evil deeds.
Students!
A supreme devotee, a poet, a jñānī, an ideal on the spiritual path: that was Bhartṛhari. That same Bhartṛhari, at one time, recognised his own faults and grieved over them. What did he say? “When I knew little, I thought there was no one in this world greater than me, and I behaved like a rutting elephant, seeing neither earth nor sky. But through the darśan of great ṛṣis and through their good teaching, I was able to recognise Satya.” “As medicine cures a disease, so through the darśan of the elders and through their teaching, a mind like a rutting elephant comes under control,” he thought. In this endless universe, what is your form? What is your body? What are you? In the endless sky, how great is the sun? Within this principle of the sun, how great is this earth, a mere speck? On this earth, how much smaller still is the land of Asia. Within this Asia, how much smaller still is the land of Bhārata? Within this Bhārata, how much smaller still is Andhra Pradesh? Within this Andhra Pradesh, how much smaller still is Anantapur district? Within this Anantapur district, how much smaller still is Prasanthi Nilayam? And within this Prasanthi Nilayam, how small is the room you live in! In your room, how great are you? Where is there any room for your Ahaṅkāra! This is nothing but the delusion of Ajñāna. When we enquire deeply into our humanness, we come to understand so many principles that are Satya, eternal. A train goes at fifty miles an hour; a plane goes five hundred miles; light goes five crore miles; from the place where we are to the stars the distance is twenty-three lakh crores. The sun that we see shines beyond measure. Why? Because the sun is near to us. That sun too is only a star. In a universe as vast as this, what reason is there to believe our humanness to be divinity, or to shape it into divinity?
Students! To recognise Satya, Jñāna is essential. In the present situation, people hold Jñāna to be of three kinds. At the ordinary level, they think that to believe Satya to be Satya and untruth to be untruth is worldly knowledge.