In plain words
… what are we achieving? As long as we are here: eating, sleeping, doing some work or other, earn… . Sharing out what we earned among children, grandsons and granddaughters: is this all our … ? What are we earning? What lasting thing are we earning? … impermanent. Joyless is this world; having come to it, worship Me.’ Everything is impermanent. The moment it is born, a baby … . At 30 years we call him a man. At 75 years we call him grandfather. Through these four stages … he has changed, has he not? He has not become four people, has he? In the same way, though all of time keeps changing, individuality … remains in us. What is that individuality? We must foster it. Vyakti does not mean legs and arms and belly … : that is not vyakti. ‘Whoever makes manifest the divinity that lies unmanifest and hidden, he alone is …: the divinity that is hidden must be made manifest. Only then does this attain divinity.
Bring a lorry-load of firewood, put rice and water in a vessel and set it on that wood: it does not become cooked rice; … . Nothing cooks. But when the fire hidden within that same wood comes out, that fire … cooks all the rice. The fire that lies hidden within, bhūśāti, does nothing at all. It must come out … . Deep down in the earth there is water. But that water: if we remove the earth that lies over it, that water comes to us. For the water below to come up, we must sink a borewell. We must drill. We must drill. That borewell goes down deep and brings the water up. In just the same way, we must sink a bore on the tongue. We must contemplate the Name of God … . If we contemplate and contemplate, that bore goes down to the heart and draws up the Ānanda … the Paramātma who is there. That is the very work we must do. Remembrance. There is no other … greater than remembrance. That remembrance is what is needed. We must do that remembering with all our heart. Only when we remember with all our heart … can we attain divinity in every way. We speak … new words. How many impure words we speak! Because of this our … : we fall only into unrest, and cannot gain peace and joy. The Paramātma is … one.
The faiths are many, the path is one; the kinds of cloth differ, the thread is one; the ornaments differ, the gold is one; the colours of the cattle differ, the milk is one; living creatures differ, the jīva is one; castes and codes differ, birth is one; the darśanas differ, God is one; the kinds of flowers differ, the worship is one. Not knowing this, men lose their wits and, for a living, have become bound in many bonds.