In plain words
‘What is this? However many times we call you, you do not come! All the dishes are getting cold. Come without fail, and quickly!’ So he would order the bridegroom's people about. When he came to the bridegroom's people and ordered them about, they thought he was on the bride's side, a big man of the house. When he went to the bride's side and ordered them about, they took him for a master on the bridegroom's side. In this way his liberties grew beyond all bounds. Both sides grew fed up. Then they began to enquire. ‘Who is this man, sir?’ The bridegroom's people came: ‘Who is this man, sir?’ they asked. ‘We don't know, sir,’ these people said. The bride's people came and said, ‘Who is this man, sir?’ ‘We know nothing about him,’ they said. By the time the two sides enquired together, he had fled! Thinking, ‘My secret is out!’, he slipped away and ran off. In the same way, Ajñāna goes one time to the side of the Ātma and another time to the side of Prakṛti, and orders both Prakṛti and the Ātma about. Only when we carry out discrimination between the Ātma and the not-Ātma, only when we make the enquiry, does Ajñāna vanish. Today we are not making such enquiry. Because we fail to enquire, ‘Is it the Ātma or the not-Ātma, is it of Prakṛti or of the Supreme?’, it torments us in many ways. To enquire, there are four paths. You all know them. What you have is bookish knowledge. After some days it turns into superficial knowledge. After this superficial knowledge comes general knowledge. Only when general knowledge has come must you look for discrimination knowledge. That discrimination must not be individual discrimination. It must be fundamental discrimination. After discrimination knowledge comes practical knowledge. This practical knowledge is eternal Satya. We must keep journeying on until we reach that Satya. Only when we go on enquiring like this will Satya become clear to us.