In plain words
‘I’ is beyond these. The Veda said, ‘Ahaṃ brahmāsmi.’ That is, it said, I am Brahman; it did not say, mine is Brahman. You must try to recognise well this principle called ‘I’.
To recognise oneness is true Jñāna
Embodiments of Prema! Because from the very first you make the division of ‘I’ and ‘mine’, you give room to these doubts; you cannot recognise the principle of molecules and atoms. All creation is made of atoms. This lemon is a gathering of atoms. It is not a lemon, it is only the form of atoms. For our use we have given it the name lemon. To everything in the world we give names only for our own use, not in order to recognise the truth, not in order to attain Jñāna. What is Jñāna? “Advaita darśanaṃ jñānaṃ.” To recognise oneness is true Jñāna. So first of all you must try to recognise the root principle. What is the root of water? You put oxygen and hydrogen together and make water. You make these changes for your own convenience, for the business of the world, for your worldly life, but all these changes are only mithyā. What does mithyā mean? What is neither true nor untrue; that is, it appears to the eye, but afterwards it disappears. But the root principle does not change in any of the three times. That is why it has been said, “Trikālābādhyaṃ satyaṃ.”
To follow the inner Ātma is true Dharma
Man today falls under many delusions, longs for power and wealth, and goes down the wrong road. How long will these last? They come, and they go. “Mā kuru dhanajana yauvana garvaṃ, harati nimeṣātkālaḥ sarvaṃ.” You must not look at youth, which breaks up in a moment, swell your hopes, and waste your life. You were born to make your life worthwhile, not to waste it. “Śarīram ādyaṃ khalu dharmasādhanaṃ”: the body has come into being for the practice of Dharma.