In plain words
We must come close to divinity. Only then will the darkness called Ajñāna in us go, and we shall be able to experience the Ānanda that is divinity. This divinity dwells in man himself. We need not go to some other place and search for it. Do you need another lamp to recognise a lamp that is burning? There is no need. To recognise the divine, splendid principle of Jñāna that is within us, we need no other Jñāna. The good fortune of seeing one's own svarūpa: that is Jñāna. It was so that man might recognise his own true nature that God granted him a body. This body, given him so that he might recognise himself, man is simply wasting.
Today man has not even the sacrifice that beasts and birds have
Today sacrifice has vanished from man. All the Vedas proclaim: ‘Not by action, not by progeny, not by wealth; by sacrifice alone have some attained immortality.’ You must try to recognise how much good there is in sacrifice. Even birds, as soon as their young have grown wings, send them off to live their own lives. Those very birds are making a sacrifice. Beasts keep their young close and feed them until they have the strength to eat grass. But as their own strength to fill their bellies grows, they let the young go free. Today even birds have sacrifice. Even beasts have sacrifice. But man has no sacrifice. Right up to death it is ties, ties, ties. Binding himself with these ties, man falls prey to many kinds of suffering. What use is the learning of such a man? What use to such a man are all the teachings of Jñāna? What use is it for such a man to have Vijñāna, Sujñāna and Prajñāna? What use is it to read the Upaniṣads? What use is it to study the Vedas? All of these are simply turning into something like a gramophone record.