In plain words
When sorrow arises from us, we must think of happiness. When hardships come to us, we must think of Ānanda. We must develop the evenness of mind that makes this kind of enquiry into the lasting and the passing. But to make it so that there is no sorrow at all: that is beyond anyone. To be without … hurt is not possible. It is impossible to live in the world without bad. There is bad, there is good. We must recognise the difference between good and bad and act with presence of mind. This kind of adjustment, understanding, is most necessary in students. First understand. Adjustment becomes easy. So we must try to recognise the oneness in man. If you go up to a beggar and say to him, "Who are you?", when he introduces himself he says, "I am so-and-so, Swami." You go up to a rich man and ask, "Who are you?": he too introduces himself, "I am so-and-so." Go up to women and ask: when they introduce themselves, there too they say, "I am so-and-so." When you go up to men and try, when he too introduces himself, they say, "I am so-and-so." If you go up to one who is in sorrow and ask, "Why are you grieving, sir? Who are you?", when he introduces himself, "I am so-and-so, Swami; I grieve because of such-and-such karma, because of such-and-such hardship," the one in sorrow too uses the word "I". So when man introduces himself to anyone at all, each person introduces himself by the word "I" alone. So what is this "I"? It is the principle of the Ātma that is one in all. One may not have Prema. One may or may not have Śānti. One may or may not have Satya, but in all, the "I" is always there, in everyone. That is 'Īśāvāsyam idaṃ sarvam': what is in everyone is one alone. That is "I". That principle of the "I" is itself the feeling of the Ātma.