In plain words
The root cause of rāga and dvēṣa is selfishness. The root cause of selfishness is self-… … . This self-interest is the delusion of the body itself. The root cause of this delusion of the body is Manas itself. When Manas is offered to …God, that itself is the mantra that has found the secret of all things. So what is the very first mantra? I, I: that itself is God's root mantra. In Sanskri… … this is called Aham. Ahaṃ brahmāsmi. With this Aham we must make our life worthwhile. Whatever we … , whatever we see, whatever we eat, whatever we say, wherever we walk, in all of it we must be dedicated, with the feeling of the Ātma alone.
There are two kinds of I here. One is the I joined to Manas. The one joined to the Ātma is … . That is, the feeling of the Ātma itself is I. Because it joins with Manas, it turns into Ahaṅkāra. When the I joined to the Ā… …tma joins with bliss, it shows everything to be one. ‘Ekaṃ sat viprā bahudhā… …danti.’ Though what is, is one, many think of it in many ways. Such faith … ; however many kinds of sādhana one does, all of them are only the work of what the mind has made up. Clouds born of the … heat rise up and cover the very sun. In just the same way, the mass of mind-clouds that … from the Ātma covers the Ātma. So what screens the Ātma is … … ; only when one destroys Manas does the Ātma stand as one. What is this Manas? Manas is only the form of our … . We must try to press down our delusions little by little. But with these … sādhakas, who think of themselves as devotees and sādhakas, desires grow by the day. … … are growing. When will such people ever attain this state of the Ātma? It is simply not possible. Step… … we must press down our selfishness and self-interest. It is this very selfishness that is making man … in so many ways.
We must make a fitting effort to develop a broad, divine feeling in the world. … people are making many efforts to change the world. Without the individual changing, how will the world chan… … ? The world is a gathering of individuals. So, first, when we wan… … to change the world, the individual must change. We must put away the bad qualities in the individual. We must develop holy feelings in the individual … . Only when the individual is good does society become good. Only when society is … can the nation be shaped as good.
Embodiments of Prema! First of all, we must turn individuality into a holy power.