In plain words
I have come from Bangalore,’ so they go on stating their situation as it concerns the body. Not stopping there, ‘I am a doctor, I am a lawyer, I am a student, I am a farmer,’ so, on the basis of his profession, he makes out where he has come from by his calling. In thinking of himself as one who belongs to a country, he does not find his own true answer. What is your name? ‘Manuja’, ‘mānava’. What does ‘Manu’ mean? This is Svayambhu Manu. ‘Ja’ means being born. One born of Svayambhu is a manuja. Precisely because he was born of Svayambhu, called ‘Manu’, he bears the name ‘Manuja’. But man gives this Satya no thought at all.
Man, the embodiment of Saccidānanda, searches for Ānanda in the outer world
Though he is himself the embodiment of Saccidānanda, he scrambles about in the outer world for the sake of Saccidānanda. What is the reason for this? Not entering into this matter called Jñāna, he dreams within the sleep called Ajñāna. In ordinary sleep he is lost in it and forgets his own true form. At that time he does not know that he is an emperor, or a president, or a prime minister. At whatever level he goes through experiences in that dream state, he takes that very thing as his ground and believes it to be his own true form. In that dream state there is no feeling at all of 'I am an emperor'. He has no feeling at all of 'I am the president'. Only after he comes to the waking state does he tell himself, ‘I am the emperor, I am the president, the prime minister.’ In just the same way, man, lying in the sleep called Ajñāna, unable to recognise the Satya that he is himself the embodiment of Saccidānanda, his own true form, goes on making out his form in the dealings of this world alone, in this tie with the body, in the ties of his calling, in the ties of country.