In plain words
Embodiments of Prema! In this world happiness and sorrow, peace and unrest … all these and the rest are bound to change. Man, unable to recognise his own true form, mistakes the perishable body for the eternal and true, puts his trust in the body and lives by it. Man is a being of samaṣṭi, not a being of vyaṣṭi. He does not like to live alone. Yet, unable to recognise the truth that he is the form of samaṣṭi, he mistakes himself for the form of vyaṣṭi, for the form of the body, and falls into sorrow. Oneness within the many is the very truth. Man's chief goal is precisely to recognise this truth. Indian culture too has taught just this. But man forgets oneness and sameness, thinks of difference, practises it, follows it, and lives in unrest.
Today those who explain the authoritative truth of the Veda and its inner meaning to the people in full, and spread it, are very rare. Some read books and listen to the teachings of elders, and so come to understand something of it; yet even they do not try to recognise the truth fully. In ancient times demons such as Hiraṇyākṣa and Hiraṇyakaśipu had studied the Veda thoroughly and understood it, yet they wholly forgot the principle of truth within themselves and took to untrue, impermanent and unwarranted paths. Both were men of great learning indeed, and great scientists too. But for the most part they gave room to ‘negative qualities’, that is, to worldly thoughts, and forgot the positive principle. Narakāsura was of just that kind.