In plain words
What effort does man make for this? The food we have eaten is well digested in our stomach, and its essence is supplied to every limb. What effort do we make for this? So some things happen naturally, as they are to happen, though there is no human effort in them at all. This itself is the divine vision. However much man does, how many things there are that bear no fruit! If he makes the effort, saying, 'I must live a hundred years,' can he live so? Then where does his effort succeed? If he thinks, 'I must die this very instant,' does he die? So birth and death, decline and growth, victory and defeat: in all of these, what is man's is merely the effort, only that. Its fruit is God's principle.
Everyone in this world is only an actor. On this stage of the cosmic drama the director is One alone. God. Only when we develop that faith shall we not shrink at all from the unrest, the fear, the hardships and the griefs that are happening in the world today. The young must develop such firm faith. They must have self-confidence. Only when there is that self confidence does self satisfaction come. Only when this self satisfaction has come does a man make self sacrifice. Only when one has made self sacrifice does self realisation come. What does realisation mean? It is just this: to recognise oneself. Recognising who one is: 'My true form is the Ātma.' This body, senses, Manas and Buddhi are passing clouds. Clouds that move on. Taking such things as our basis, we forget the divinity that is eternal and true, shining in the light of the sun.
An innocent villager, setting out on a journey to some town, got into a train for the first time. This train was made up of many carriages. Hundreds of people were sitting in the train. Very big carriages. They were carrying it all along. He too took a bag and a bundle. Along with all these people he too got into it. He looked about, poor man! 'Oh! So many people sitting in this train, and so much luggage! Poor train, how heavy it must be, who knows!' he thought. Then, thinking, 'It would be good if I at least lightened it a little,' he who had sat down sat with his bag and his bundle placed on his head. A clever man beside him said, 'You simpleton! Why have you put them on your head? Can you not set them down beside you?' he said. 'I have put them there to give the train a little less weight,' he said. 'You fool! It is the train that carries you and your bundle. More than that, it is not you who carry your bundle. It is the train that carries this bundle and you too.' Telling him that he was being so ignorant, he gave him good counsel, so the story goes.