In plain words
This is not a name that came into being. It is natural; it is one's own nature. Today, … this nature, we scramble after our own standing. That is why we are unable to … our true …. Where is this ‘I’? Childhood, youth, adolescence, … : we pass through four stages. But the ‘I’ does not change. In childhood ‘I’ we … ; in youth we say ‘I’. In adolescence we say ‘I’. In old age ‘I’ we … . In waking, dream and deep sleep the ‘I’ does not change. The gross, the subtle, the causal … in all three the ‘I’ does not change. In all beings the ‘I’ is present equally. When someone calls ‘…ayya’, he gets up saying ‘I’. Another, when someone calls ‘Kṛṣṇayya’, gets up saying ‘I’. When someone calls ‘…ayya’, he gets up saying ‘I’. But Rāmayya, Kṛṣṇayya, Raṅgayya: though their forms and names differ, … all of them answer ‘I’. This ‘I’ is one, and only one. In all it … . That itself is ‘I am Brahman’. In everyone, too, the divinity called ‘ahaṃ’ dwells. … said:
What is spoken is the Bhāgavatam, they say; He who has it spoken is Rāmabhadra, they say.
Who is meant by …? ‘What I speak will take away worldly bondage, they say’: nē. There, vāḍu. Nē: these two words he … . If we take the true meaning of the words vāḍu and nē, the whole Bhāgavata… lies merged within these two words. For vāḍu the Sanskrit is saḥ; … nēnu in Sanskrit is ‘ahaṃ’: saḥ + ahaṃ = so'ham. This so'ham means: I myself am He. … ‘That you are.’ He is I myself; I am He Himself. Oneness of this kind keeps showing forth … holiness … in our history.
Embodiments of Prema! We … think of human life as having come just to live somehow. It came to offer an ideal life. From waking up till going to sleep, … what work are we doing? All that we do, we scramble … for a span-wide belly. That is all, isn't it! However long they live, it is only this, isn't it; they achieve nothing more than this.
Rising from sleep, until you sleep again, for the belly's sake you let your days slip by uncounted all through your life, vaddila, pouring it away, forgetting the Lotus-eyed One; what great happiness have you gained? Think it over with love, O man!