In plain words
Mā - na - va
We must not ascribe multiplicity to God. Whatever person we see, we must make lasting in ourselves the faith that this person is the very form of God. Even if the person who comes before you is one who hates you, you must think, ‘He is my own, my own.’ In God's creation every single thing is good. Nothing in creation is bad; all is pure. In it there is no room at all for sorrow, pain or hardship. Sorrow is nothing but man's delusion. Sorrow arises only because humanness joins with Māyā. In the word ‘mānava’, ‘mā’ is Māyā; ‘na’ is without; ‘va’ is to conduct oneself. One who conducts himself beyond Māyā is truly a mānava. The delusion of being the body is itself Māyā. You must know that you are not the body. Once you fall under Māyā, you never know the secret. Māyā is only man's imagination. Through this very imagination man suffers sorrow. An actor in a film shows fury to suit the scene; he shows love; he shows joy; he shows delight. Yet all these, after all, are only fancies he has imagined! In the same way, all the pleasures and pains that man undergoes are delusions he has made for himself. Only when you give up delusion can you recognise the principle of Brahman. Once Kuntī Devī said to Kṛṣṇa Paramātma, ‘Kṛṣṇa! Though You are God Himself, because You wear a human body and move among us, You create in us the delusion that You too are only a man.’ Tyāgarāja too described it in the same way:
“You are beyond the reach of speech; is it within the power even of Brahmā and the rest to praise Your story! O Kṛṣṇa! I have been waiting for Your grace; hear my plea and protect me. The guru's son whom Death had carried off You brought back and gave; You crushed the pride of Kālīya; You freed Vasudeva and Devakī from prison; when the long-eyed Draupadī cried out ‘Hā! Kṛṣṇa!’, You saved her; wonderful, wonderful! You guarded the Pāṇḍavas; You relieved Kucela's distress; You took away the crookedness of the misshapen Kubjā …”