In plain words
Students!
As long as there is ego, this world does not honour man. The day this Ahaṅkāra leaves man, on that very day the world honours him and cherishes him. As long as there is anger, sorrow keeps pursuing man. The day man lets go of this anger, on that very day he can attain every happiness. As long as man is tormented by desires, there is no such thing as happiness. As long as there is greed, man in this world cannot enjoy happiness in the least. The day man puts greed far from himself, on that very day all happiness comes within man's reach.
Before recognising divinity, we must understand the universe well. What is the universe? What is the form of the universe? The form of the universe is nothing but what is made up of the sun, the moon and the rest, the planets, the stars and so on. The very emptiness in the midst of this universe has been called the form of the universe. Right there are the Milky Way and the galaxies, all of them. The scientist of today has made many observations and has gone on deciding: matter and energy. But in My view there is no such thing as matter in this world. Everything is nothing but energy. This very energy turns into matter in one moment. In another moment the same takes shape as energy. The scientists called this a study of substance. Though the names change in this way, substance has gone on taking shape as one, and energy as one. This energy completely destroys the very substance that was there before. It creates new substance. This has been named the nuclear process. All that takes shape under many names in science is one and the same energy. Mountains are not made of rock. Forests are not made of wood. The earth is not made of clay. The body is not made of flesh. All of it is nothing but energy made of atoms. In everything, this atomic energy itself lies held within. This same atomic energy is becoming the immense. In the language of Vedānta this has been called ‘aṇoraṇīyān mahato mahīyān’.
If we enquire into this well, this universe was born a thousand years ago. More than 450 crore years have passed since the earth was formed. These living beings were born some lakhs of years ago. Long ago the earth was dark. At the very first, the whole world was nothing but darkness. Like the sun, the earth too was very hot. It took some thousands of years for this heat to cool. After it had cooled little by little, its upper part gradually turned into hard substance. From then on, creation began on the earth. This earth is magnetic in nature. Through this magnetic nature it gradually turned into electrical energy. This electrical energy turned into heat energy. This very heat energy took shape as light energy. This light energy itself turned into the energy of radio waves. It turned into the energy of X-ray waves. After that it gradually took shape as laser energy. In this way, many energies came into being from magnetic energy itself. On the earth that held these energies, certain qualities too began to arise. Desire, anger, greed, delusion, pride and envy arose from this very Prakṛti. This Prakṛti also has shields of certain kinds. One cover at the top, one cover in the middle, one cover at the bottom. These keep holding back certain energies that come forth from the sun. From the sun, certain energies come forth through many rays. Through gamma and laser rays, poisonous energies come forth. These are all dangerous rays. So that these dangerous energies do not touch the earth, and so that the living beings on this earth are protected, what is called the clodaplas has gone on dissolving them. Because protection came in this way, many beings have been able to live on this earth. The working of this Prakṛti is most wonderful. Light travels 1,86,285 miles a second. When we take this as the measure and make a year of it, our one year, it takes six thousand crore years. If we set out to go round the universe, it takes 22 lakh crore years. The span of a man's life is very short. Who can live 22 lakh crore years! Who can go round this whole universe? Only the one who tries to know this universe well is able to recognise divinity. Faster by far than light is the divine power. How many crores of miles He travels in a moment! He stays just where He is. How can man, who cannot recognise even the worldly principle, understand the infinite principle? Today we are looking at the region that lies in the midst of the void. In the Milky Way there are many forms of emptiness in the midst of the form of the universe. The globes on which man lives today are beyond counting. Among them, our globe is very small. On this globe, what does man amount to? How can humanity, a particle finer than such an atom, understand divinity, greater by far than the great?