In plain words
For all of these, … is the root cause. It is Manas that keeps passing through so many kinds of change. When Manas … … , all is open ground.
We have built a house. Inside this house we have marked off, one from another, a bedroom, a kitchen, a …room and a bathroom. These distinctions … appear. It is only because we have built some wall… … for them, according to our experiences and our conveniences, that these have taken shape as separate rooms. When we knock down the … built across, all is just open ground. In the same way, what is everywhere is the principle of the Ātma alone. One wall called … , one wall called the senses, one wall called the mind, one wall called the intellect: because we buil… … these walls, this principle of the Ātma is hidden away, and everything has taken shape as rooms. This is the working of … resolves. They are not broad, divine feelings. So these very attachments are the root cause of human nature falling prey to …kinds of unrest.
Just as paddy is pounded to separate the rice, when through śravaṇa, manana and nididhyāsana we separate this husk that covers, the …maya sheath, the Prāṇamaya sheath, the Manomaya sheath, the Vijñānamaya sheath and the Ānandamaya sheath… … , the true principle of the Ātma takes shape for us. These are only like the husk that covers: … , the senses and the intellect. What remains when the husk is taken off is the rice… … ; as long as the husk is on the rice, ‘punarapi jananaṃ punarapi maraṇaṃ’; this husk we separ… … ‘punarjanma navidyatē’, that is, for it there is no birth at all. So, of all of these, the root cause of bondage is … the senses, the mind and the intellect themselves. Itē, the principle of the Ātma is present equally in all.
Here is another example. When we touch an iron ball that has been in the fire, … burns the hand. We say the iron ball burned it. That is not the right answer. The iron ball did not burn you. The fire that entered it burned you. Itē, in this iron ball the fire… … is. Is it outside, or is it inside? This fire is inside and outside. Though what … us is the fire, we lay it on the ball. This whole world is like a big ball. In … , joy and sorrow, gain and loss, hardships, blame and harsh words tormen… … us; itē, what are these that are tormented? It is body, senses, mind and intellect that are tormented. … . What pervades this whole world, within and without, is the consciousness of the Ātma alone.