In plain words
bright. All these are the svarūpa and svabhāva of things. In the same way the svabhāva of the Ātma is Sat, Cit, Ānanda. In it there is no hatred at all. The bad things we see in the world, the wickedness, injustice, wrongdoing, misconduct and Asatya, all of these are the doings of Prakṛti. This whole world is filled with divinity. The principle of the Ātma, which is svabhāva, exists as oneness. ‘Ēkaṃ sat viprā bahudhā vadanti.’ What is, is One; yet according to man's feelings it appears as many. These are the distortions of man's Manas. They are not the svarūpa and svabhāva of the Ātma. No one asks of good why it is good. When there is bad, people ask why it is bad. When you are going to the bazaar and someone is crying, people ask why that person is crying. That is, sorrow is not man's svabhāva. So they ask in wonder. In that same bazaar, when someone is happy and cheerful, no one asks, ‘Why are you happy, sir?’ Ānanda is his svabhāva. That itself is the nature of the Ātma. ‘Nityaṃ nirañjanaṃ sanātanaṃ nitya śuddha buddha mukta nirmala svarūpiṇaṃ’: this eternal principle of the Ātma we take to be the body. Only to one who has the feeling that the body is the self do all these appear distorted. To one who holds to the Ātma, everything is full of Ānanda.
Today the root cause of pleasure and pain lies in man's own pravṛttis. That is why: ‘Mana yēva manuṣyāṇāṃ kāraṇaṃ bandhamōkṣayōḥ.’ Of bondage and of liberation, Manas alone is the cause. Where Manas is, there restlessness is. Where there is restlessness, there is unrest. One who lives in unrest has no happiness. Wherever you look in the world, Manas has spread. The Veda said, ‘Manō mūla midaṃ jagat.’ The whole world is the very form of Manas. When this Manas is turned towards Prakṛti, it falls still lower. Manas is nothing but saṅkalpa and vikalpa. Because Manas, made of saṅkalpa and vikalpa, has spread everywhere, man falls into unrest in many ways. We must not follow Manas at all. Higher than Manas is Buddhi. This Buddhi examines what is eternal and what is not. We must give the power of enquiry its chance, decide, and only then go ahead and do the work. But the man of today does not give it that much time. The moment Manas thinks of something, the moment Manas imagines it, he enters into action.
The man who takes Manas for his support sinks lower than a beast and falls; the wise one who takes Buddhi for his support is changed into Paśupati, so said Parti Sai.
How great a difference there is between the beast and Paśupati! Between the one who follows Buddhi and the one who follows Manas, this itself is the ….