Passage 2

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In plain words

This perfect Jñāna flows as an inner current in every kind of knowledge: moral, physical, of Dharma, spiritual and scientific. So Cit means perfect Jñāna. Where this Sat and Cit, both, are present, there alone is Ānanda. So humanness is born in Ānanda, grows up in Ānanda, and in Ānanda it dissolves. Ānanda is man's goal. Ānanda is man's very birth. Ānanda is man's very Dharma. This is precisely the secret that lies in being human. So every person makes his effort for the sake of Ānanda. From childhood to old age, longing to experience Ānanda, he dedicates every act he does to Ānanda.

Humanness is a part of God!

But this Ānanda is not to be found in the place where he searches for it. When he is himself Ānanda, to try to search for his own nature outside is sheer madness! Are there people in the world who search outside for themselves? Just as searching for oneself is a kind of Ajñāna, searching for Ānanda in the outer world is that same Ajñāna! The water has no need of the fish. But without water the fish cannot live. A branch is a part of the tree. A child is a part of the mother. Branches cannot live apart from the tree. A child cannot survive apart from the mother. In just the same way, humanness is a part of God! Apart from God, man cannot experience Ānanda. But under the influence of Kali, people have carried out research of many kinds and hold up the doctrine that God is not needed and that man's own effort is what counts; but they hold it up only outwardly, and within, they too have no contentment. Where has this man come from? What is his place? No one is making any effort to know this. No one inquires into it. He just exists somehow, eats, roams about and lives. Where has he come from? Merely on the basis of the body, ‘I have come from Madras, I have come from Bombay, I have come from Calcutta.