In plain words
That alone is Satya. That alone grants Ānanda. Keeping such Ānanda as the goal, we must try to live this physical, worldly life, as far as we can, on a path that is not against Dharma.
Students! We think of our life as very valuable. When does it become valuable? It has value only as long as human values are there. When we lose these human values, then we lose humanness itself. It will have no value at all. So we must develop Satya and Prema, which are called human values. That is, in the culture of Bhārata, satyaṃ vada dharmaṃ cara. These two alone are our sūtras. These alone are our eyes. These two alone are our śāstras. Here there are two principles called vyaṣṭi and samaṣṭi. Vyaṣṭi means the principle joined with a single body. It may also be called the principle of the jīva. The oneness joined with many bodies may be called samaṣṭi. One tree is a tree. It is not a forest. Only when many such trees come together does it become a forest. As much difference as there is between a tree and a forest, so much difference is there between vyaṣṭi and samaṣṭi. A house stays a house. When many hundreds of houses come together, it becomes a village. As much difference as between a house and a village, so much difference between vyaṣṭi and samaṣṭi too. An individual is the principle of the jīva. Only when we put into practice the divinity that dwells in all the vehicles is that the principle of samaṣṭi. That is the principle of Īśvara. This is the principle of the jīva. Only when we recognise such principles of vyaṣṭi and samaṣṭi can we experience humanness in the right way.
We are studying all sorts of studies we do not understand. Through these studies, are we enjoying any Śānti and happiness? A little happiness may come. Those are physical pleasures. They are not lasting happiness. Well then, is it giving Śānti? There is no Śānti. Śānti is in you alone. In outer objects neither Śānti nor Ānanda is to be found at all. When we want to experience Ānanda, we must follow our own feeling of the Ātma alone. Every man: Ānanda, Ānanda. For the sake of Ānanda they crane their necks. But they do not inquire where this Ānanda is. Is it in objects? Is it in persons? Not at all. It is in oneself alone. When we search in the outer world for the principle of the Ātma that is in oneself alone, how will we find it? One must search within oneself. That alone is true inquiry.
What is the root cause of this Ānanda? The world. What is the root cause of the world: a certain kind of energy. What is the root cause of this energy? The principle that is the root foundation.