In plain words
If you do the sādhana called the remembrance of the Name, that ash goes and the fire is seen. You need make no effort for this fire. It is enough to blow away the ash that has covered it. What is the ash that covers it? That very ash is Ahaṅkāra, anger, desire, attachment. Attachment to the body grows beyond measure in man.
It is this very attachment to the body that swells Ahaṅkāra. As long as there is Ahaṅkāra, you can achieve nothing. To be without this Ahaṅkāra is true humanness. When he is born, man has no Ahaṅkāra at all. Little by little he goes on swelling it. This is mine, this is I. Swelling Ahaṅkāra of this kind, he goes on building up attachment. It is just these two, the Ahaṅkāra called ‘I’ and the mamakāra called ‘mine’, that bind man so much. If both go, man is nothing but Ānanda. This Ānanda is not gained through any separate, special sādhanas. Why should you do this sādhana? Why do they do it? They do it for a passing satisfaction of the mind. But in your unsteady world, in an impermanent life, it is impossible to attain what is true and eternal. All experiences pass with the moment. These are not true and eternal. What is true and eternal is the awareness of the Ātma alone. This Ātma alone is eternal and true. It is right within you. You yourself are the Ātma. You must make that feeling grow day by day.
To question and learn ‘Who are you?’ is information; to search and learn ‘Who am I?’ is transformation
Bojāni said, ‘who am I?’; no one puts the question “Who am I?” to himself. Every man asks, ‘Who are you?’, but he makes no effort to know who he himself is. What result do you gain by asking others, ‘Who are you?’ It is all just gathering information. There is no result that comes from this information. If you come to know who you are, transformation takes place. ‘Who are you?’ is information. To know ‘Who am I?’ is transformation. When you come to the level of this transformation, you need do no sādhanas.