In plain words
If you first know who ‘I’ am, you will come to know about everyone. Kṛṣṇa declared, “Mamaivāṃśo jīvaloke jīvabhūtas sanātanaḥ”, “All are My reflections.” When we recognise this truth, the true form of everyone becomes clear to us. The object and its reflection are not separate. Both are one. Unable to recognise this oneness, man sees the many and is deluded; he divides the one into the many. He thinks he is very clever. This is just what causes Ahaṅkāra. Once Ahaṅkāra comes, everything goes to waste. We must take hold of the oneness that is in the many. Only then is full Ānanda attained. When such divine Ānanda comes to us, we need grieve over nothing any more. I have no worries of any kind. I always remain in Ānanda. When you know your true nature, you too will attain Ānanda. What is the reason you cannot attain Ānanda today? You do not know who you are. All of you are reflections of God! All your forms are reflections! Your own action comes back to you as reaction. You hear your own sound as an echo. Why should you grieve on seeing this reflection, reaction and resound? You must feel, ‘All this has come from me.’ Now, because I am speaking here, its echo is heard by everyone. If I did not speak, how could an echo be heard? So ‘reaction’, ‘reflection’, ‘resound’, all three arise from us alone. Our sorrow comes from us alone! No one specially brings it and hands it to us. And if they did, we would not even take it! We must recognise the truth that every jīva is the reflection of God. This is just what the Bhagavad Gītā chiefly teaches! Whatever happens to us, when we recognise and act on the truth, ‘This is my reflection, this is my reaction, this is my resound’, everything will be full of Ānanda for us.