In plain words
So we must go on developing this oneness in our humanness.
The very matter Aṅgīras told Śaunaka, this Satyakāma asks again of the sage Pippalāda. ‘Swāmī! In the world there are three kinds of knowledge. People say that one is ordinary knowledge, the second is sujñāna and the third is Vijñāna: what is the relation between jñāna, sujñāna and Vijñāna? What inner meaning do they hold? Please tell us about them,’ he said. Foolish boy! There is no great difference between jñāna, sujñāna and Vijñāna. What comes through the body is jñāna; what arises in the mind is another jñāna. What springs from the heart is another jñāna. Here is a small example: this is a kerchief, this is a mike, this is a table, this is a tumbler, this is a plate: all these, visible to the eye of flesh, the things we have experienced in our daily experience in worldly life: this is natural knowledge. These belong only to the body. They belong to the use of the body. But in the mind there is something else. ‘I am doing this work. From this work is there any result, any use, for me and for the people around me?’ To perform one's karma with the good of others in view in this way is sujñāna. Not only for one's own selfish ends: all the karmas done in the spirit of asking, even in the karmas done for one's own selfish ends, ‘Is there any result from this for others?’ are sujñāna. Taking up these two: by doing what will the divine principle be satisfied? What is the way to satisfy God? By performing which karmas does God become ever satisfied? All the works that satisfy that God are Vijñāna. These need not be searched out separately. When the Paramātma is satisfied, the world itself is satisfied. That is why once a devotee went on praying to God: ‘You are not giving me darśan. Why have I ceased to be Yours? Why am I unable to fall within Your sight? Why does Your sight not fall on me? When I do not have Your sight, will the world then take any account of me?
If I am not Yours, Mother of the worlds, I shall be held cheap in the world, Mother of the worlds.
If I am not Yours, I become cheap in the eyes of the world itself. O Mother! If Your sight does not fall on me, the sight of God does not fall on me.’