In plain words
The whole of creation is only that which changes from moment to moment. It is neither eternal nor true. The principle that is eternal, true and pure is the Creator alone. To examine the Creator, to search Him out and to attain Him: that alone is the spiritual path.
This whole world of the moving and the unmoving is made only of the three guṇas. So true humanness is there for this very purpose: to recognise the principle that is beyond the guṇas. God is the embodiment of the Ātma: 'Satyaṃ jñānam anantaṃ brahma.' Say Brahman, say Satya, say the Infinite, say the Ātma, say Bhagavān, say Deva: these are only synonyms of one word. In the very beginning the five elements emerged from the Ātma. Now, the five elements hold contained within them the principle of the five tattvas. From these five elements pañcīkṛta began. From this pañcīkṛta state these three guṇas emerged. This universe is the very form of these three guṇas. This universe is filled with the threefold form called the sattva, rajo and tamo guṇas.
First of all we must recognise the secret of this sattva creation. The collective sattva portion of the five elements is this antaḥkaraṇa. Now, from this ākāśa too, this, being a sattva creation, came to experience the individual principle. Of these five elements, ākāśa is the first. From this ākāśa, from the individual principle, a pure sattva came forth. That itself holds the first place in human forms. In humanness it is the beginning of the influence, the bearing and the fullness of aspects such as these. So from the individual sattva of ākāśa the ear was born. Next, of the five elements, the aspect that is individual sattva from the second element, air, is the skin. Fire, the third. The individual sattva portion of this fire is the eye. The fourth is water. Its individual sattva portion is the tongue. The fifth element is Prakṛti. The individual sattva portion of Prakṛti is the nose. So the elements called sound, touch, form, taste and smell were sāttvic in the first stage and began from pure sattva.
But since each element is an individual element, these organs that arose from that individual can each be used for one task only. The quality of ākāśa is sound. The sign of sound is the ear. The ear knows nothing but hearing. In just the same way, air, the second element. This is touch. The skin.