In plain words
We must follow our heart. Only when we follow it do we reach the right state.
Students! The world today greatly needs such students. Students are very good indeed. Students do have good qualities. But the faults are in those who in some measure lead them along. The atmosphere outside is very foul. However foul it may be, if our hearts are pure we can enter any house at all and win the day. We must hold that faith. First of all, self-confidence; that self-confidence is the foundation of our life. Only when this foundation called self-confidence is good, self-satisfaction. That we can build as the walls. If these walls called self-satisfaction stand secure, we can lay the roof called self-sacrifice. Only when the roof called self-sacrifice is laid can we experience self-realisation. That is why: self-confidence, self-satisfaction, self-sacrifice, self-realisation. These too: before every one of them stands self. Who is this self? We must recognise this first of all. Without the self, where does self-confidence come from? Without the self, where does satisfaction come from? Without the self, what will you do with sacrifice? Without the self, what will you do with realisation? For all of these the self is the main thing. What is that self? That is the true Ātma principle. All these are only like some garments. All these are what is supported; the self is the support. The self is prāṇa. All these are the living being. From prāṇa itself the living being comes. So first of all we must set the self in the right way. The self must always stay as the self. We must not let it change on any path at all. Once selfish comes in, it is badly spoiled. That is why fish is better than selfish. We must not be selfish. Self is love lessness. Love is selflessness. So this self must be brought into a sacred house. This is what Pippalāda taught. We must set the self first of all as the nature of the Ātma. We must not make it, ‘I am Rāmayya, I am Kṛṣṇayya, I am Raṅgayya.’ These are names given and bodies born. Names given to a body that was born. The Ātma was not born and was not named. For the divinity that is neither born nor named, we may take that itself as the true self.