In plain words
All this is only God's will. By yourself you cannot accomplish any task through effort. I told you the other day. How many tasks there are that man's effort does not accomplish! How many tasks there are that bear fruit even when no effort is made! Only the thought 'I have achieved this' is the root cause of doership and enjoyership; this itself is Ahaṅkāra. Ānanda is your very svarūpa. You yourself are the embodiment of Ānanda. But you cannot recognise your Ānanda. This Ānanda is covered over by attachment and hatred, by Ahaṅkāra and mamakāra, by the covering of attachment to self. Attachment and hatred are thick clothes. These alone stand in the way of our Ānanda. When we put away this attachment and hatred, we can take on our own svarūpa. So we ourselves are Ānanda. Being Ānanda ourselves, we try once again to come to know Ānanda. What madness this is! Though all is in ourselves, driven by desires for outer things we go out into the world made of what is seen and try to taste many kinds of desires.
When the wish-fulfilling tree is there, giving the fruit you long for, why this fondness for the flowers of the backyard? When the Kāmadhenu herself has come, giving milk as you ask, why pay money to buy a cow? When Mount Meru stands there, blazing with light, why search for silver and gold?
While he himself is everything, why do we fret over these small, trifling things? Only because he does not know that he is so great, so noble, the very embodiment of Ānanda.
Students! This is something you know. How great an elephant's strength is, only one who has felt it understands; others do not. One blow from its trunk alone, and he goes nine feet forward and falls. So strong is the elephant. But when the weak mahout holds his goad in his hand, the elephant does as he tells it. What is his strength, and what is the elephant's? The elephant does not know its own strength.