In plain words
They had many experiences. I have no experience at all. I am ignor… ; how can I rule so great a kingdom? Who will give me the right advice? In this wa… , in deciding whom he should know, who is good and who is bad, he … confused. Night and day this was his one worry. He thought: if I am to rule so great a kingdom, there are many who give me orders, … who give me commands; but who are they who would … commands rightly, for the good of the people?
Thinking like this, he sat by a window one moonlit night, pondering. Many women and … were setting out in crowds upon crowds. He saw it. Where are they going in these crowds? He called the servants who … and told them to find out why they were going and where. … they said. ‘A great soul has come near our village. He is giving a talk today. … a great ascetic. We are going to hear that talk,’ they said. Very well, he thought, I may hear that great one… … . The king changed his dress. Putting on ordinary clothes, he went along with the common… and sat down in that crowd himself. ‘Will he give some message for my doubts?’ … , poor man. The sage began his talk. Humanness is most excellent; born as a human being, foster… huma… , growing up in human life and in human society, man goes on … to know what a human being is. Not knowing what man means, man says, I am a man. The meaning of man lies in man himself, he said. Ma, ignorance; na, without; va, conducting oneself: conducting oneself without …na. He who conducts himself without ignorance is man; one bound up with ignorance is no …vuḍu. He is a dānava, they said. Moreover, mā means ‘not’. Nava means ‘new’. Mānava means: a new one … , that is a mānava. That is, one who is very old indeed. He has been coming through many births, born as a human being. So we, … this old one, think of ourselves as new and try to follow a new path. No, no; … we are the old ones indeed. ‘For us, who are the old ones, the chief duty is to follow the old principle, the principle of the Ātma,’ he sai… … …tana, purātana, sanātana: there are three words. Nūtana is the principle of the body. Sanātanatva is the … principle. Purātana is this principle of feeling. What relates to these three is humanness. These three … are joined in the form of yantra, mantra and tantra. Our breathing in and breathing out is itself the mantra. That is the Sōham … mantra. The body itself is a yantra. Our heart itself is the tantra. Man, … of such yantra, tantra and mantra, is sanātana, he said.
Well, everyone listened closely to this teaching.