In plain words
Without guṇas, without action, eternal, beyond all distinction, stainless; changeless, formless, ever free am I, and pure.
Prema Itself Is the Ātma
There is one thing that has no guṇas, knows no karma of any kind, is changeless and has no form, and that cannot make its own purity, selflessness and steadiness known through any number of efforts. That very thing is Prema. They gave this very Prema the name ‘Ātma’. This sacred principle of Prema, nirguṇo nirvikalpo, nirākāro, with no such guṇa, without actions, the formless principle of Prema: how can man recognise it? This Prema is not an exercise of the Buddhi. It is not a path of the mind. It is not a reflection in a dream. But its nature is Satya, as dear as life itself, in everything. About Prema, many elders, scholars, boys and girls keep spending their time in many ways, giving fervent saṅkīrtanas and fervent lectures. But what is the form of this Prema like? It reveals itself to us in a form that is practice itself. To describe Prema, poetry is not enough; there is no language for it. “Yato vāco nivartante aprāpya manasā saha.” It is beyond the mind and beyond speech. Great souls have gone on proclaiming this principle of Prema in the world in many ways. But if you ask what this form of Prema is like, this very form is the form of God. What is this God like? Where is God? In what form should we see Him? In what path should we search for Him? Many people, asking many such questions, have gone on deliberating a great deal about divinity, even from time without beginning. But divinity cannot be described. “Vedāham etaṃ puruṣaṃ mahāntaṃ ādityavarṇaṃ tamasaḥ parastāt,” said the Veda.