In plain words
Gokak used to come to Me every day at both times, morning and evening. “Swami! Through the things You are telling me, many of my doubts have been cleared,” he would say. As for how he came to know Satya ... he enquired into nothing but the eternal and true feelings within himself. In every human being there is that thing called Inner enquiry. It is not visible to everyone. Yet at some time or other it opens the eye of Jñāna. Once, as the festival of Guru Pūrṇimā was drawing near, Gokak came to Me: “Swami! On the path I am travelling, the light seems to have come close to me,” he said. When he came to Me again that evening, he looked full of Ānanda. “Well, Gokak, you are in great Ānanda!” I said. “This Ānanda is not something that came from me, Swami! It is nothing but the gift of Your grace,” he said. What kind of Ānanda is that?
Eternal Ānanda, giver of the highest happiness, absolute, the very form of Jñāna, beyond the pairs of opposites, like the sky, the goal of sayings such as ‘Tat tvam asi’, one, eternal, stainless, unmoving, the Sākṣī of every mind, beyond feeling, free of the three guṇas....
“Then stay at that very level,” I said. The next day he came after daybreak: “Swami! By Your grace I have been able to stay right there in it,” he said. Feeling that in that state I should not make him talk any more: “Gokak! Go now. Attend to your work. I will see to what must happen in your case in the future,” I assured him. With that, the conversation between the two of us came to an end. He went away. The next day he came at brahmamuhūrta and tapped three times on the door of My room; in answer I tapped six times on the door from inside. He understood; he went away in silence.
Between Swami and Gokak there was a bond of the Ātma
Little by little the divine radiance in him went on shining brightly. He completely forgot the worldly goal.