In plain words
In this birth and death, what do you love? You love nothing. But is there no Prema in you? There is. The value we give is for Prema alone, not for the living being. Take one small example. So... The life-breath has gone in. Ham... Out came the life-breath. These two are always happening to us. Every moment these two keep teaching us. As long as this breath remains, man has been called a jīva. As long as this life lasts, man has been called a jīva. As long as this life lasts, it has been called birth. If the So'ham comes to a stop, they call it death. So birth and death come from our life-breath itself. While such great changes go on in these two, who can prove that God is or is not? Some say He is, some say He is not; in this way they waste time in argument and counter-argument, but neither of these is true. Yet it is there. It is there forever. There is no going and coming. Taking the body as the basis, we teach these two principles.
The heart You gave me, O Lord, that very heart I offer back to You, O glorious One; truly, what else could I bring for Your worship? I join my palms in salutation; do receive it.
So these two are only man's illusions, not real truths.
In the world so many creatures are being born. So many creatures are dying. These two, birth and death, both belong to time, not to the body. So man himself recognises his own truth alone. On this very account, they experience the ties of kinship joined with such a body. This too is a great mistake. As long as the body lasts, it is my relationship. But as soon as this goes, my relationship is no more. A relationship coming about and going is not something that comes about merely with bodies. Who is related to whom? Was he there before you were born? After he has gone, will he be seen? No. The principles of these two are nothing but untruths. Bound up with delusions, they strive to recognise the principle of Brahman. So we do not know the right meaning of this outward, natural, supreme principle. True sādhana is nothing but recognising who one really is. People undertake so many kinds of sādhana just to recognise the truth 'Who am I?' The very 'I' that is in you is present in everyone. Feelings of difference, 'you' and 'I', bring quarrels and lead to unrest.
Embodiments of Prema! Birth and death belong only to the body, not to the jīva. To decide what is and what is not is nothing but the mind's imagining. Everything happens only through man's imaginings. So life itself is a kind of dream. Within such a life, how can you recognise the truth? All these too are illusions. As long as this illusion remains, Brahman will not appear. The day we give up this illusion, that very day is the fitting mark of our birth. If you would recognise 'Who am I?', you can recognise it through the breath alone. Leaving such an easy path, they enter a hard one and, in agitation, grow weary of life. While a thorn stays in the foot, pain comes to us. If we pull that thorn out and throw it away, we have no pain of any kind. We suffer through the illusion 'This body is I, I'. If we remove this feeling completely, you yourself will know who you are. So all these happen only through illusions.