In plain words
Man cannot recognise the truth that what we live by, grow by and experience is Ānanda. So ignorant has man become.
This is Māyā.
All the lives are Māyā, the bonds of worldly existence are Māyā, family life is Māyā, death is Māyā; for a life of Māyā, why fall so deep into Māyā?
Of your own accord you are falling into Māyā. Nowhere does Māyā appear to you as something apart. There is no such thing as Māyā. What does not exist: that is Māyā. Where is Māyā? Only if it were there could one speak of it! Seeing a rope, you mistake it for a snake. Because of this mistake you keep away from the rope. When you switched on the torch, you knew this was a rope. "Why, it is a rope!" and the fear went. He took hold of the rope with his hand. When he took it for a snake, it was the rope itself. When he took it for a rope, it was the rope itself. When the light came on, no snake went away. No rope came. Then and always, what was there was the rope. Then and now, you are the very embodiment of Ānanda. Because of Ajñāna it seems as if Ānanda has gone. When Jñāna comes it seems as if Ānanda is experienced. The divine principle that neither comes nor goes is Ānanda. When we recognise Satya, we become those who have recognised everything.
What is this Satya? It is the purity of thought, word and deed. Whatever has arisen in your heart, speak it out in your words. And to carry out with the hand what you have spoken in words. The oneness of these three is Satya. They are bound together in a close relationship of kinship. I told you three days ago: from the Ātma emerged Ahaṃ. Ahaṃ is the son of the Ātma. From Ahaṃ emerged Manas; Manas is the grandson of the Ātma. From Manas emerged speech, the great-grandson of the Ātma; Ātma, Ahaṃ, Manas and speech are all one family. What comes from the heart is speech. What comes from speech is action. The purity of thought, word and deed is itself the form of Satya. Satya is not something heard or something seen; Satya is My very form. Because of this, we are forgetting this Satya.
(When you look into it in worldly matters)