In plain words
But you are telling about the job; but who are you, first of all? My name is Rāmayya. My name is Kṛṣṇayya. These, Kṛṣṇayya and Rāmayya, are names given to bodies, but they are not you! So if we go on inquiring in this way, they describe the names of things, the names of countries, the names of occupations, but man is not trying to recognise the truth of who he is. The right answer: My name is Ātma. These forms and names too change in a moment. They are not steady. All these are unsteady. But oneself is steady. Not recognising such an eternal and true principle, man tries in many ways to recognise things that are transient, impermanent and untrue. What use does the world get from such men? Such men, sunk in selfishness and self-interest, cannot recognise in the least either the welfare of the nation or the prosperity of society. All these individuals are only members of society; one is not apart from it. Only one who recognises the welfare of society is able to recognise his own welfare. On what do the individual and the family depend? Not recognising the welfare of such a society, man tries to live holding only his own self-interest as his aim. He forgets self-confidence. Whoever wants to build even a small house must first lay the foundation firmly. If there is no foundation at all, the building itself cannot stand. So this foundation is self-confidence. Only when self-confidence is firm will the building that is one's life stand secure. What is this foundation for? Foundations are essential for building walls. What are these walls? When self-confidence arises in one, only then, through faith in what is called the Ātma, does one's self-satisfaction come. This self-satisfaction is gained only through self-confidence. Through what does this self-satisfaction grow? Only by giving up self-interest does what is called self-interest come to a stop. Only by this giving up of self-interest does the Śānti of the Ātma come in humanness.