In plain words
What does bhūta mean? Sound, touch, form, taste, smell and the rest: such a coming together of the senses. All these are inert; these very inert things they went on naming bhūtas. This bhūta has yet another meaning: a ghoul. They said it is a monstrous bhūta. What does that mean? That it is some kind of devil. All these bhūtas are ghouls to us. They are the very ones that torment man in many ways. So we urgently need persons who recognise their true nature.
So we must recognise well the feeling of the body, the tattva of the body and the duty of the body, and keep our aim on the Ātma. So do not turn into the doer who says, 'I am doing.' 'Its fruit must come to me alone': do not sink into such doership. We must put this doership and enjoyership far from us and carry out our duty. This duty itself is yoga. If you experience this yoga, you can experience the divine enjoyment of the Ātma. But because this yoga is lacking, we are turning into the sick. We must inquire well and carefully into the movements of the mind. Where is it born? What is the work it does, why must we follow it, what fruit comes of it, does it take us into bonds or lead us to the vast Mokṣa? If we inquire so, it is leading us step by step only into bondage.
So the Ātma principle simply cannot be inquired into in any other way. The reason why differing feelings, differing actions, envies, kinds of Ahaṅkāra, hatreds and unrest grow in today's world is the very loss of oneness. So we must foster the principle of Prema that holds all as equal. What is the knowledge in the studies we pursue today? Is it true knowledge? No, no. It is the knowledge of ignorance, within ignorance. Studying in ignorance, we are developing only ignorance. Here, if we ask where the Ātma is, it is there as the very form of the Ātma, called that Caitanya which lies between one Caitanya and another. When do we understand this? Not everyone understands it. It is like the state midway between waking and sleep.