In plain words
If the Jñāna of the principle is to dawn, you must first of all recognise who you are. We must understand the truth of what man is. He is ever new. He is neither ancient nor old. However many births he takes, the body stays new. This proves that humanness is the Ātma principle, joined with divinity. Only when we carry out certain kinds of enquiry does its true nature become visible to us. Its steadfastness is to hold to one's own true nature. Such steadfastness is the true seer of Jñāna. The vision of this seer is the power of Bhakti. With the seer as our support, we must develop our vision and experience creation. But to think that merely having the shape is humanness is foolishness.
The shape may be a human shape. Demonic qualities may hide this humanness. So we must not look at the shape and mistake it for humanness. True humanness means mā-nava: mā means 'not'. Nava means 'new'. Humanness is what is not new. Besides, it has another meaning as well. Mā-na-va is made of three letters. Mā means Ajñāna. Na means 'without'. Va means 'conducting oneself'. One who conducts himself without Ajñāna: that is the right meaning. But falling prey to Ajñāna and given over to unrest, how can one attain the divine Ātma-jñāna? First of all we must understand the divinity that is this humanness. If we do not understand it, and keep only the harmful meanings among the many meanings and cast aside the true one, we cannot recognise the very form of Satya.
Will every green bird talk like a parrot? Will every insect that flits over the flowers be a bee? Will a donkey covered with a tiger's skin become a tiger? Will a pig grown as fat as an elephant become an elephant?
So to look at the shape and mistake it for humanness is nothing but foolishness. Humanness means that Manas, word and deed are all joined as one. One thing in words and another in deeds: when you follow this kind of path, how can it be humanness? It is burned, and so it is called dēham. It wears away, and so it is called śarīram.