In plain words
Put gold into the fire, heat it and strike it with a hammer, and only then does it become a beautiful ornament. In our human life, if we bear some hardships, endure sufferings, take no account at all of blame and reproach, and develop divine Prema, divine Ānanda comes to us in that very Prema.
We must not think lightly of the Prema of God. It is most sacred. To look at, it may seem very small. To experience, it may seem of this world. But it is a principle beyond the world. Every human being must attain such a principle of Prema. I told you yesterday. Aham is born of the Ātma. The mind is born of aham. Speech is born of the mind. So speech is the child of the mind. The mind is the child of aham. Aham is the child of the Ātma. So aham is the Ātma's son. Speech is the grandson. Father, son, grandson, great grand son: these four are related through the Ātma itself. The Ātma is in everyone, so that itself is the true principle of Prema. There may be a person who has nothing, but there is no person without the Ātma. What is the oneness in all? That is Sat Cit Ānanda. We called that conscience. We cannot see the very air around us. We cannot catch hold of the very air around us. But because we cannot see it, is there no air? Because you cannot catch hold of it, is there no air? There is. In the same way, because you cannot see it, this consciousness is not therefore absent. Because you cannot experience it, consciousness is not therefore absent. It is there. This they called being. This being they called Sat. That is, what always is. It does not come and go. This Sat is a divinity without coming and going. To think that this principle came from somewhere and went off somewhere is a great mistake. They think that God came and gave them darśan while they were in dhyāna. This is a notion of nature. From where did He come, to give darśan? He did not come from anywhere. Having given darśan, He did not go back anywhere. He is right there. When your heart became pure, He appeared. When it grew impure again, He disappeared. Other than that, there is no coming or going.
You all know this. Dhruva was a boy of five years. He had no knowledge of the world at all. He had no worldly knowledge. Such a boy, through faith and at Nārada's urging, entered the dense forest, sat rigorously and contemplated God. We must believe the words of elders.