In plain words
So when you set this body on the path of its right use, this body comes to its fulfilment through good deeds. It is only like a garment you have put on. So the body is a vesture. You are not the body. So to think of this body, which is not I, as I, is itself Ajñāna. Only when you root out this Ajñāna will you shine as a sun of Jñāna.
Students! Try to recognise well the principle of the body. This body has some more supports. This body is not just like a plain piece of cloth. When we put on a shirt, it has all kinds of parts. Here there is a collar. There are shoulders. There are sleeves. There is a pocket. Many kinds of parts are joined in it. In this way a shirt has parts. In the same way the body too has inner parts and senses. Besides these senses it also has Manas, its chief. There is also the Buddhi that keeps the senses and Manas in the right condition. This mind, what is it like? We have put something in our pocket. Or, when a laddu was given as prasādam, you put it in your pocket. The laddu stays just a laddu. The oil the laddu was made with spoilt your shirt. You put an areca nut, a clove or some such thing in your pocket. If you forget and give it to the washerman, a colour comes out there. So all these changes come about only through our resolves. So you must set your resolves on the proper path. This garment called the body is made up of many parts. Truly, as the vice-chancellor asked, only when man recognises well the secret of these four, the śarīra, the senses, Manas and Buddhi, does he truly become whole. It is only because we fail to recognise its secret that we fall into many tangles. We fall into many kinds of unrest. We waste our time in this, saying 'sādhana, sādhana'. We need do no sādhanas at all. If you recognise Satya, that itself is sādhana. All sādhanas, every one, only teach Satya. They only make Satya seen. Once Satya has been seen, why any more sādhana? We need the firewood only until the cooking is done. Once the cooking is over, we have no more need of the firewood.