In plain words
Travelling and reaching Madras is time. Seeing your relatives is the reason. To see them and be content is your duty. So it is time, action, reason and duty together that is Satya. This is made of Satya. You are here in Prasanthi Nilayam today. You slept in your room. In that sleep you had a dream. In it you went to Madras and arrived. You saw your relatives. You were content. All this is a dream! But in this there is no time, action, reason or duty. When did you set out from Prasanthi Nilayam? How did you get there? Whom did you see there? What contentment did you experience? In this there is none of it at all. When you set out: there is no reason, there is no time. Did you go by train, did you go by car? There is no action at all. What witness do you have that you saw anyone there? There is no reason there at all. The duty itself, of having enjoyed it, did not take place at all. So what has no time, action, reason or duty is untruth. What is made of time, action, reason and duty is Satya. So, if we are to experience this Satya, we must do action with the body. We must keep the goal of these actions in view. We must believe that to achieve this goal is our duty.
God granted the body so that one may know who one is
We were born. What were we born for? We were born so that we may recognise our divinity. God granted the body so that one may know who one is. To know oneself is the action. The Ānanda one gains after knowing is the duty. Man has forgotten this. Jesus kept teaching this Satya. We were born, in this world. We must serve our fellow men. We have taken on a body in order to do this service. With this body we must serve society. Jesus kept teaching that we must take up the service of protecting the poor and the helpless. This is just what Vedānta taught: that our body has come for the sake of action. Today we do not try to recognise such a Satya.