In plain words
Truly, if he had not made it, it would not come about automatically. So there is someone who constructed it. Where he is, who knows, but someone there is. In the same way, at daybreak as we rise, the sunrise, and again at night the sunset: in this way, night and day, the hand of this clock keeps going round. Who made this clock? Is it not by the sun going round in this way that this clock of yours tells you the time? If this sun were to stop going round, your clock would be of no use. So who is it that made this? Can man not use his intelligence even this much! Very strange problems keep appearing before us every day. But however many we see, they are a wonder only while we see them. After that, it is merely a curiosity. This is a kind of sign of man's fickleness. If you ask why this fickleness comes: formerly all the animal qualities were in this being. That remnant is still left in him. Whoever is very fickle must have taken birth as a monkey before. The monkey's fickleness has remained over in him. Sometimes there is stupidity too. Going by this stupidity, it means that in a former birth he was a sheep. Its remnant is still left in him. Another is foolish. In a former birth he would have been a He buffallow. Its foolishness is entering him. So all the qualities in the man of today are what remained over from former births. So in form he is a man, but all these warped tendencies are animal distortions. When we want these animal distortions to go, we must develop humanness. If you enter into divinity, both of these go.
So we must bring this divinity that is in us to the waking state. You are simply sinking in Ajñāna. You are sleeping in darkness. Arise. Arise. Find the Ātma. God is not far away from you somewhere. You yourself are He. He is within you yourself. Without coming to know the One who is so near, you travel far, far away somewhere. God is far nearer than the mother. You keep saying, ‘Mother, mother.’ He is much nearer than the mother. No one is coming to know the One who is so near. This tamas has covered the mind. Because of this darkness called tamas we go on searching even for a thing that is near. When the light goes, even with the tumbler right beside us, we grope for it like this. But it is right near. There are things like this in many sports. They set pots ten feet away. They tie up these players' eyes. They turn them this way and that and tie it all round. They put a stick into their hands. He has to go and hit that pot. Then what does he do? He saw it beforehand. But because his eyes are tied, when the pot is here he sets off over there.