In plain words
That is not śānta. The state in which a man separates from his heart the cruel feelings that are in him, the bad qualities, evil thoughts, evil deeds and evil feelings: that very state is called śānta. The feeling of the heart that remains after hatred has been rooted out is what is called śānta. A heart that has equality, harmony and brotherhood is what is called śānta. That is to say, when we have put away these bad qualities, only one thing is left. That alone is the Godhood that is divinity. In the language of Vedānta this has been described in many ways.
To Know Oneself Is Itself Mokṣa
There are ever so many things a man has to know in this world; but leaving all these aside, Vedānta, the Upaniṣads, the Brahma Sūtras and all such great and sacred texts, every one, said: ‘Panivarte vivakṣa svavimarśe mokṣaḥ.’ It taught that to recognise oneself is itself Mokṣa. Examining oneself, examining oneself. What does it mean, to examine oneself? ‘Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?’ This very spirit of inquiry is what we must come to know first of all. That itself is Mokṣa, they said.
In the world there are ever so many objects to know. There are ever so many matters to know. Leaving all these aside, is it so great a thing to know the word I that we use in daily life? This word ‘I’ pervades the entire world, all of it, the whole cosmos. ‘I’ is just one letter: ‘Brahman is one alone, without a second.’ There is nothing else, no second, apart from it: Brahman. That is why everything is contained in this one word I alone. In the Bhagavad Gītā He said ‘Me alone’ at every single step.