In plain words
We must develop Prema. There is no Satya greater than this Prema. Where there is Prema, there is everything. There is no room at all for hatred, or envy, or Ahaṅkāra, or mamakāra. Prema fosters oneness. That unity itself is true purity. That purity itself is Divinity. First of all there must be unity. In that joining a kind of divine power comes. This is a cloth. It is not a cloth. It is a joining of threads. Because many threads have joined, it is very strong. The unity of the threads alone is the root cause of its strength. When you take the threads out separately, one by one, you can snap them with your fingers. It becomes weak. When ten people join to do a task, the courage of ‘Nine are behind me’ gives this man enthusiasm. When the courage of ‘God is behind me, in front of me, everywhere’ grows still more, there is no fear wherever you go. God is in me, around me, above me, below me, every where. He who fills everything everywhere is God alone. A fish moves about in water. Where is the water for that fish? It is everywhere. Only then does it move about so joyfully. Take that same fish and put it in a cup set with gold, diamonds and cat's-eyes, and it gives up its life. It does not know the value of these gems. It cannot understand the value of gold. ‘I want my own home. My own home is water alone. In that water alone is my joy,’ it thinks. In the same way, what is Ānanda for man today? Divinity alone is Ānanda, Godhood alone is Ānanda, the sacred alone is Ānanda. Forgetting this Ānanda, man frets like a fish fallen on the bank. Feed it the five delicacies and sweet rice; it is not satisfied at all. ‘Sir! Put me in the water,’ it says. Only when it goes to its own home does it have Śānti. In the same way, where is Śānti to be had for man? In his own home alone! What is that? Man thirsts for Ānanda. Ānanda alone is his own home. ‘Brahmānandaṃ paramasukhadaṃ kevalaṃ jñānamūrtiṃ’: that Ānanda alone is his own home.