In plain words
Sat, Cit and Ānanda are man's chief qualities. Forms and names are impermanent and transient. But man, covered over by the Māyā of Prakṛti, keeps forms and names alone as his goal, takes them for eternal truth, and wastes his life.
Scientists and Vedāntins
In this world those with powers of intellect are of two kinds: scientists and Vedāntins. Some merely recognise the things of the natural world, weigh what is good and bad in them, and put them to use. Such people are scientists. Those who look only at the branches, twigs and tender shoots of a tree and take delight in them are scientists. Those who recognise the roots that are the very basis of those branches and twigs, look into their strength and power, and take delight in them are Vedāntins. People who take delight merely in looking at the tree outside are beings of the natural world. Those who nourish the roots that are its basis, eat its fruits and take delight in them are Vedāntins. See how great the difference is between scientists and Vedāntins. Bring a handful of sand and put it on a plate, and from its colour, its weight and its state the scientists say, “This is sand of such and such a period, from such and such a place.” But Vedāntins do not set about this kind of enquiry. They regard all this as God's creation, God's Māyā. Science can be compared to a half circle. It starts in one place and stops in another. But the spiritual is like a full circle. Where it began, there it ends.
That is full; this is full; from the full, the full arises; taking the full from the full, the full alone remains.
Such divinity, full and whole, is in every man. But man makes no effort to recognise it. When he closes his eyes and sleeps, who is protecting his body? How is his body working?