In plain words
Svabodhe nānyabodhecchā bodharūpatayātmanaḥ na dīpasyānyadīpecchā tathā svātmā prakāśate.
To see a lamp that shines out brightly, we need not look for another lamp. In the same way, to seek you, whose very form is Jñāna, no other Jñāna is needed.
Knowing no learning of any kind in the world, the birds and the beasts have taken a supreme rule upon themselves and learned to live by it; man alone, who has intelligence, has lost his wits and lives so: has man not this sense? I am telling you the plain truth.
The safety of the mansion of life rests only on the foundations of humility, obedience, morality and character
Students, embodiments of Prema!
Life is a mansion of four storeys. If this building is to stand safe, its foundations are what matter most. The building is seen by all. The building is made to take shape with beauty and grace. The building draws people to it. But the foundations have no beauty or grace. No one is drawn to it. Yet the safety of this building rests on its foundation alone.