In plain words
‘Īśāvāsyam idaṃ jagat’: the world is the dwelling of God. ‘Viśvaṃ viṣṇusvarūpaṃ.’ This whole universe is the very form of God! Casting off that sacred feeling of God and trusting only the feeling of the world, man falls into sorrow. It is most necessary that we do not regard the world with the feeling of the world, but believe in it with the feeling of the Lord of the world. Only when the feeling of God arises in man does sorrow leave us and Ānanda come. So what must be let go is the feeling of the world. Only then does the Ānanda of the Ātma come to us. The second: the feeling of the jīva must be given up. Who is the jīva? The jīva itself is God. When we wish to recognise this principle of the jīva:
In the body dwells the jīva, in the heart dwells God; the two play together and part from each other; there is one, the master of the strings, who makes the puppets play; good puppets and bad there are: in the one the two abide.
So there are not two parts, the jīva and the divine. Through Ajñāna man forgets the Satya that is, imagines the untruth that is not, and falls into sorrow. He sees a rope and takes it for a snake. But when, after he has recognised it, he knows that this is a rope, the fear of the snake vanishes. There was no snake before. No rope came. After he recognised it, there was no snake, and no rope came. What was there before and what is there now is only the rope. So, seeing the world, man thinks this is merely the principle of the jīva. But this world is the form of God. When we understand this divinity of the Lord well, both the delusion called the world and the delusion called the principle of the jīva leave us. So only when we recognise the Satya that the jīva is God does sorrow go far from us.