In plain words
Those who cannot recognise the truth that for … the Ātma alone is the authority and the chief go on … in this way.
So the root cause of everything is the Ātma alone. If we want to see it, what … must we search for? There is no need to search. It is a state that shines by its own light. It is not acquir… … , anew, something that is not there. It is what is there at all times and in all states. Where is the searching for what is already there? What madness it is to bring another burning lamp to search for the burning lamp… … ! It is a light that is … unceasingly. There is no need to search for it by any other sādhana. Until he recognis… … himself, man goes on fancying that it is somewhere else, in another place. Covered by ash, … … the delusion of the body hides this knowledge of the Ātma. So the very moment I recog… … the I that is true bliss, all of this too vanishes.
Only after the word I, I, I was born was all creation created. The I itself … there is no creation. What is that I? Who is it? It is existence itself. Because that very existence shin… … in all, it has another name, Ātma. This very thing has another name, Brahman. This very thing has … name, the heart. This very thing has another name, Ahaṅkāra. I, Brahman, existence, the heart, Aham: all these… … are just other names for … . Today, as to what the heart is, we fancy merely this: we take for the heart the organ that is bod… … . That is not the heart. The heart has no one … … . What is everywhere is the true heart. Forgetting such a heart, we think that only this … , limited heart of the body is the heart. For every word … , we live our life taking existence as its basis. That is Aham, Aham. That … Brahman. ‘I am a householder,’ you say. Before ‘householder’ there is the word I … ‘I am a sannyāsī,’ one says. Before this word sannyāsī there is the I. ‘I am a ma… … ,’ one says. Before the word man there is the word I. That is why, when these changing words, I am a … , a sannyāsī, a man, a woman, are put away, the I stands as … . So the I itself is the basis of everything. I means the Ātma.
We are forgetting this principle of the Ātma, which is everywhere and knows all. That is why man falls prey to so many… … , to so many kinds of sorrow, to so many kinds of doubt. What … ought to love is not the person. We must love the Ātma. … the Ātma, which we ought to love, we love the body, which is not worth loving.