In plain words
I say from time to time: Satya is the current, Dharma is the wire, Śānti is the bulb, Prema is the light. Through what has this light come? It has come only through the Ātma. So if we are to experience the Ānanda of the Ātma, we must first of all follow Satya and Dharma. In our Bhāratīya culture these two alone, ‘Satyaṃ vada, dharmaṃ cara’, are the most important. But today it is ‘Satyaṃ vadha’: they are slaying Satya; and ‘Dharmaṃ cera’: they are putting Dharma in jail and locking it in. This is not what being human is. We must speak Satya. We must practise Dharma. Between the two, speaking and practising, there must be oneness.
‘The indweller Himself is the God of gods...’
“Naciketas! This body made of the five elements is impermanent. Some day or other it is bound to burst like a bubble of water. So give up your attachment to the body. Know the principle of the Ātma, Satya and eternal. It cannot be seen by the eyes of flesh. The eye of Jñāna alone is what matters most. What kind of thing is Jñāna? Is it physical knowledge? Worldly knowledge? Knowledge of objects? No, no. ‘Ekatva darśanaṃ jñānaṃ.’ Jñāna is precisely the awareness of whatever is one in all things. That itself is the principle of the Ātma, beyond name and form. Win that Jñāna of the Ātma,” said Yamadharmarāja. For that, these material sādhanas are of no use. People today have gone mad: in the name of spiritual sādhana they close their eyes, fold their arms and search for Jñāna. These physical sādhanas give only physical results. All of them are nothing but fickle, impermanent and unreal. The principle of the Ātma, Satya and eternal, is right within us. To recognise it, a single moment is enough. In all things we must take the principle of Prema as the main support. The senses get in the way of such inquiry in many ways. So we must cut down our attachment to the body little by little and develop attachment to the Ātma.
The body is made of the five elements; the body must fall one day, without fail; the One within the body is free of every ill; reckon it well: for the indweller, death and birth and the marks of moha's binding bonds are not there; see it truly: that indweller is the God of gods; reckon it in your mind, He is the very form of the Ātma!