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In plain words
This is not humanness. To spend one's whole life in Satya alone: that is true humanness.
What does humanness mean? To act without Ajñāna: that alone is humanness. The man who acts without this Ajñāna must make Satya alone his support. To him alone belongs the name mānava. Mānava. Ma means Ajñāna. Na means without, and va means acting. Man is not one who was born yesterday or the day before. Mā means not. Nava means new. Man is not new. Man is not one who came only in this birth. Man is very ancient. Man is truly sanātana. He is not new. Such a form of Satya lies hidden in these very words. So man must dedicate his life to the principle of Satya. Sat, Cit, Ānanda. Sat is what stays permanent always. Cit is awareness. When the two, this awareness and the eternal, come together, Ānanda is natural to us.
Today, unable to attain Ānanda, we search for Ānanda in many ways. Ānanda is our very form. But unable to recognise our own form, we look here, there and everywhere for our own form. What a fool is the man who goes looking for his own form! Tell Me. Can anyone go looking for himself? No. Wanting Ānanda, we search for it in the world. We scramble after Ānanda. Thinking that Ānanda is to be had in objects, we inquire into objects. Thinking that Ānanda is to be had in persons, we go and meet persons. Thinking that we shall have Ānanda in work, we plunge into every kind of work. There is no Ānanda for us in another person. There is no Ānanda for us in other objects. There is no Ānanda for us in other matters. Ānanda is in oneself, as one's own form. He revels in his own Ānanda.
Born in the water, growing in the water, the water bubble merges back in the water; man is the bubble, Nārāyaṇa the water: listen, heroic son of Bhārata!
We were born in Ānanda. We are growing in Ānanda. We come to our end in Ānanda.