In plain words
Otherwise, while you are in the sorry state of not recognising your own humanness, … … can you regard with equality? A small example. We have heard that God is in the cat, in the dog, … …, in the snake, in the scorpions, in everything. We even say so. When you … … think it over: if anyone … you, or your mother and father, or your brothers, 'O donkey' … …, you get very angry. We feel hurt, as if an insult had been done. God too … …: how great an insult that would be to God! When can you reach this equality? Only when … … has grown do you become fit to make use of this equality. … … a donkey is a donkey. A dog is a dog. A pig is a pig. A man is a man. So long as you feel that you are a man, respect …. Love the other creatures; but if you pursue the equality that all is one, … it will be like taking a … path. So what man must strive for and achieve today is to bring … … under control. We must keep our senses under control. Whatever feeling … … in the mind, we must not try to turn those feelings straight into fruit. … we must enter into this work with the discernment that asks, 'Is this fit to be done, or not fit to be done?' … … the chief principle among … teachings.
Bholā Śaṅkara yields to the prayers of all. However much He yields, He does not … forget His own power. In the same way, though man has many powers of will, relying on the power that is his own, called humanness, … … if he forgets humanness, only remembers divinity and enters into mamatva, this … … a life at odds with itself.
Embodiments of Prema! In every human being there is auspicious Īśvaratva. Such … … must be made to emerge through sacred feelings alone. Today's Śivarātri too has a fine … …. Through the four letters of the word Śivarātri, following the order of the letters, … in numerology …: Śi is 5, va is 4, rā is 2; in all, 11. This is what is called the eleven Rudras. Of the three letters Śi, va, rā … … is the triad. That is, the fourth letter, tri, is formed. The very form of the eleven Rudras is this Śivarātri … … greatness.
The Rudras spread Buddhi over the objects of the senses and so throw a man into worldly life. He who is above the … … Rudras is Paramātma. Only he who conquers these eleven Rudras can attain Paramātma …; so he who longs to attain the principle of Paramātma must master these eleven Rudras. Eleven Rudras … …!