In plain words
But the scholars do not teach them, and the books do not explain them properly.
Satya alone is eternal and changeless
What you must recognise is this: each one is God. When the Vedas began, the population was only a few thousand people. That is why they said, “Sahasra śīrṣā puruṣaḥ sahasrākṣaḥ sahasra pāt.” Seeing every person as the form of God, they said, ‘God has a thousand heads and a thousand eyes.’ When we have the feeling, “Every person is the form of God”, we will no longer step onto an evil path. Each one must ask himself, ‘Is the work I do the work God does?’ God never does harm to anyone. But so many kinds of deeds are going on in this world! Who is doing all these? Each one is doing them for himself. God stays only as the Sākṣī. Every person, when he is born from his mother's womb, comes wearing a necklace strung with the karmas of his past births. That is something each one has made for himself, not something God gives. Giving and taking can happen only when God is other than oneself, can they not. We must hold fast to such a feeling of the one Ātma.
In the mind, which is like a thick black cloud, the divine must come flashing like white lightning. Then the mind will no longer be seen by us. Once the mind is forgotten, there is no need to look for anyone any more. There is no need to worship anyone. What is, is One. Rāma, Kṛṣṇa, Govinda, Nārāyaṇa: these are all names we have given for our own pleasure! Names are not what matter; forms do not last. Satya alone is eternal and changeless. That is the form of God. That is ‘I’.
Trust the Ātma, and the mind's power subsides
Embodiments of the divine Ātma! You bear hardships of many kinds and practise many sādhanas. As far as you can, understand that ‘I’ belongs to the Ātma. Then you will have no troubles of any kind. Even if troubles come like mountains, they will vanish like the mist. The root cause of the problems and the unrest in the world today is the mind! The Veda said, “Candramā manaso jātaḥ.” The mind is the moon; the Ātma is the sun. The moon does not shine by its own light. It is only because the sun's light falls on it that the moon shines. As long as the sun is there, we do not look for the moon. Only when the sun is not there do we look for the moon. In the same way, once we have knowledge of the Ātma, we no longer fall under the sway of the mind's delusions at all. It is because we forget the Ātma that we depend on the mind; we live by the mind alone. Trust the Ātma, and the mind's power subsides. When the sun blazes brightly, the moon is not seen, is it! So take refuge in the divine radiance of the Ātma.
The body is a moving temple
When you trust that ‘I’ itself is the principle of the Ātma and put it into practice, little by little the thought of the body leaves your memory. The body must be forgotten; the mind must be forgotten. Only when both are forgotten will we understand our true nature. But some people: “Swami! We lead an ordinary family life; we bear the responsibility for wife and children. If we forget the body and the mind, how are we to look after all of them?” they may ask in doubt.