In plain words
With this resolve they searched and found that flower. From that very flower the fragrance called Ānanda kept coming forth. ‘We have come to know. We have found where this flower is,’ the scholars declared. Some scholars, great ṛṣis and yogis, because of a cold, could not experience even the fragrance. Those who cannot sense even such a fragrance are precisely the atheists: they have a nose, but a cold has taken hold of it. So they have become lowly ones who cannot sense even the fragrance. The very persons who recognised it: ‘Vedāham etaṃ puruṣaṃ mahantaṃ, āditya varṇaṃ tamasaḥparastāt.’ How are we to recognise God, who is there wherever we look? In every person, whoever it may be, the fragrance called Ānanda pours out from the flower called the heart. This heart is completely full. That too is full, this too is full. From the full rises the full; take the full from the full and the full alone remains: this very thing
That is full, this is full; from the full the full comes forth; taking the full from the full, the full alone remains.
So the Veda taught. So the principle called fullness, in what way: you have brought a kilo of jaggery. You broke off a little of the jaggery and put it on your tongue. It is sweet. You took another small piece and put it in your coffee. But the coffee too is sweet. You took a little more jaggery and put it into pānakam. You put it in water; that water too is sweet. You broke it into three pieces, you did. Yet within the three pieces too there is nothing but sweetness. After you break off that piece, what is left of it too is sweet. But the pieces differ in size; yet in every piece alike it tastes only of sweetness. That is just why: that too is full, this too is full. That is sweet, this is sweet. From the full rises the full: from that sweetness, sweetness alone comes forth. Take the full from the full, and the full alone remains. What remains, too, is just jaggery. What went into the pānakam is jaggery itself. In the coffee it is the same jaggery. That is, ‘full’ does not mean that the jaggery is full; its very sweetness is the full.