In plain words
Longing to win the good fortune of seeing Brahman, where will you go searching, O foolish mind? It is within you; search for it there. What greater good fortune is there than this?
Embodiments of Prema!
God's creation is full of wonder and variety. From time without beginning, many sādhakas, longing to reach Brahmaloka, have been striving in many ways. Every mantra is a gathering of a few words. These mantras have many meanings. But we must take up the mantra that suits us.
The jīva is the form of vyaṣṭi, God the form of samaṣṭi
Dakṣiṇāmūrti, wishing to spread the truth of these mantras in the world, took up many paths, taught their inner meanings and went on giving joy. To the ordinary world of everyday life He went on teaching these mantras in an ordinary way. He went on describing just three words, in a pleasing way. He laid down three times: past, future and present. He went on describing them as three forms. Between these two, the Ātma and the mind, He placed what He called the jīva. The jīva, God and the mind: these three words He went on describing in particular. But what work has the mind, standing between this jīva and God, been doing? The jīva is inert. God is consciousness. To join these two, the inert and consciousness, He set the mind in between. A mantra, “Jīveśvara prakṛti”: so as to join the nature of Īśvara with the nature of the jīva and turn it into divinity, He set the mind there as the onlooker. But in what way has the mind been turning this jīva into God?