In plain words
Nor is the feeling ‘In so vast a world, how great am I?’ in him. The ignorant man is precisely the one who lacks these two feelings. From this Ajñāna alone this Ahaṅkāra arises. That is why, through this very Ahaṅkāra, man falls into troubles of many kinds. He makes it grow only by the strength of his own resolve. Actions take place through saṅkalpas alone. Feelings arise through actions alone. Character takes shape through feelings alone. The true attainment comes through character alone. So if we are to gain this divine attainment, we must develop character. If we are to develop character, sacred feeling must grow in us. For these feelings to grow, we must do good deeds. To do these good deeds, the saṅkalpas in us must first of all be sacred. That is why saṅkalpas alone are the root cause of everything. Saṅkalpas themselves are the root cause of the form each mind takes. It has been said, ‘Saṅkalpavikalpātmakaṃ manaḥ.’ This is cloth. How was it made? The cloth is made only by the oneness of the two, warp and weft. One must go this way, the other must come that way. This is what people call warp and weft. So humanness is made up of nothing but saṅkalpa and vikalpa. But saṅkalpa comes first. Vikalpa is its distortion. We must not follow this distortion; we must follow saṅkalpa alone.
‘Saṃ’kalpa means that a conception rooted in the heart must arise. ‘Saṃ’ means the principle of Sarveśvara. Sālokya, sārūpya, sāmīpya, sāyujya: all of them truly belong to Sarveśvara. That itself is Sat, Cit. What does Sat mean? That which is eternal. That which never changes. The saṅkalpa of that which never changes must come from us. That itself is the chief saṅkalpa for man. When the saṅkalpas are right, our sthiti is as it should be. Our sthiti and our gati too will be right.