In plain words
The root of the dream of saṃsāra is the sleep of delusion
Embodiments of Prema! First of all you must recognise the truth that there is no God other than the God within man. Man himself is God. Between man and God there is no difference at all. The difference appears only through a fault in one's feeling. Man looks with a worldly outlook at the universe the eye sees, and does not see it as the form of the Lord of the universe. You must change the worldly vision into the vision of the Paramātma. When seen with worldly vision, this is a rose flower. When seen with a divine feeling, this very flower is the flower of the heart. You see this world, which is filled with divinity, only as the world, and do not see it as divinity. That is why you suffer the troubles and losses that belong to this world. Madālasā taught the truth in this way to every child born to her: “Dear child! You are not merely this physical body. You are beyond ignorance and Māyā. But in the sleep called delusion you see the dream called saṃsāra, and you are forgetting your own true nature. Wake from the sleep called delusion and enter the waking called Jñāna”.
What is the reason that dreams come? Some think that dreams come from a fault in food. Others think that thoughts are the root cause of dreams. But none of these is the cause of dreams. Without sleep, there is no dream at all. So sleep itself is the root cause of a dream. In the same way, the sleep called delusion is the cause of the dream called saṃsāra. Giving such teachings, Madālasā turned her sons into great yogis. Man was not born to enjoy the objects of the world. However much he enjoys, man finds no satisfaction. The more he enjoys, the more his desires keep growing; they do not diminish.
First of all man must recognise his own nature for himself. Who is meant by mānava? Mā means ignorance; na means without; va, conducting oneself. So one who conducts himself without ignorance is the mānava. This word has another meaning too. Mā means not; nava means new.