In plain words
As long as I went about relying on the mind, I did not understand the Ātma principle at all. Pushing the mind aside, taking Buddhi as the ideal, he attained the Ātma principle; that is why it has been said, ‘grasped by Buddhi, beyond the senses’. To understand the Ātma principle, we must first put far away the proper mother-feeling, a certain kind of feeling of the mind. As long as this influence of the mind remains, a man will not improve at all. However many births he takes, that man remains just a man. ‘Maniṣi!’ How is the man of today? ‘Ma’, ‘ni’, ‘ṣi’. Seen from this side, it is cinema. The man of today is like a man in the cinema. He seems to be merely acting; he does not appear as he himself wishes from the heart. Mānava: what does ‘mā’ mean? Ignorance. What does ‘na’ mean? Without. What does ‘va’ mean? Conducting oneself. What does that mean? ‘Mā’ means Māyā: one who conducts himself without it is the true man. We say this is merely illusion. We say Māyā. What is Māyā? Māyā is that which is not at all. ‘Nā māyā iti māyaḥ’, it has been said. What does not exist, we take for Māyā and are deluded. When you travel along any road, your reflection keeps coming along with you. This very reflection has been called ‘Māyā’. A man cannot walk leaving this Māyā, this reflection, behind. Action-reaction, sound-resound. All this is our own form, our own feelings, our own resolves! All of it has come forth from within us. So as long as these resolves and their wavering remain, man does not understand his own nature. I said this very thing the other day. In English a human being is called MAN. What does ‘M’ mean? That is Māyā. That is, we must recognise the truth that this is a reflection. ‘A’: we must experience the Ātma principle. ‘N’: how do we gain what is called nirvāṇa? Only when we develop self-confidence is nirvāṇa attained in us. So first of all we must take the Ātma principle as our faith. As long as there is self-confidence, we have no fear of any kind.