In plain words
Ānanda Is Man's Natural Trait
A small example. As we are going along the bazaar, someone, poor fellow, is crying loudly. Everyone gathers around him in a crowd: ‘Why are you crying? For what reason are you crying?’ they all keep asking. In that same bazaar another man is leaping about joyfully, enjoying his happiness. But no human being at all goes up to the person leaping about joyfully: ‘Sir! You are happy. Why aren't you crying?’ No one asks that. That is, Ānanda is natural to man. Man thirsts for Ānanda. What is called sorrow is very much against man's nature. Man should not try to grieve over anything at all. Grief is a weakness. So, only because we give room to this weakness, we have been sinking in nothing but grief for many births. So we must not give grief any room at all. For one who has truly believed in divinity, there is no grief at all. So it means that one who grieves has simply not recognised the principle of divinity fully. God is One alone. He appears to us in many forms and names. But God is One alone. We fall into many kinds of misconceptions only because we cannot recognise that divinity as one. We worship with such names as Rāma, Kṛṣṇa, Allah and Buddha. But all these names are only the ones we have given; they are not names that came after He was born. So we think that these given names are the basis of the experiences we enjoy. All these, every one of them, are only momentary!
Take no pride in wealth, in people or in youth; Time takes everything away in the twinkling of an eye. Give up all this, which is made of Māyā, and knowing Brahman, enter the state of Brahman.
So we must not give room to sorrows of this kind. This body stands on a water bubble. This body standing on a water bubble, how long can it last?