In plain words
Take away the one, and what is left is only zero. ‘I’, ‘my wife’, ‘my children’, ‘my land’, ‘my house’ …. In this way you go on adding zero after zero. In the very end there is nothing. Only when you put beside them the ‘one’ called God do they all gain value. The whole world is a zero. God alone is the hero. But, sunk in delusion, you take the ‘zero’ for the ‘hero’. Until you give up your delusions you cannot attain the vision of God.
‘Saṃśayātmā vinaśyati’
These delusions and suspicions are all spoiling your joy. Above all, doubts are just like poison. First of all, take that poison out and throw it away. One who is full of doubt cannot have joy for a single moment. Some people suspect others for no reason at all. How dangerous this is! If one suspects everyone, will others not come to suspect him too! Such people get everyone to say ‘Chī’ to them. So you must not suspect others needlessly. Even if a ‘doubt’ does come, you must push it away. Only then will faith grow firm in you. Only when the air in all four tyres of a car is right does it run well. If any one tyre gets a puncture, an accident happens. The human body is like a car. The mind itself is the steering. Dharma, Artha, Kāma and Mokṣa are the four tyres. You must fill them with the air of faith. If any one of these tyres gets a puncture, life itself meets with an accident. You must keep the mind steady; you must set it on the right road. Only then can you reach the goal safely.
If you would recognise the Ātma, you must give up the feeling ‘mine’
You are not a worm, not an insect, not a beast, not a bird, not a wild animal. You are a human being. ‘Mā-nava’. ‘Mā’ means not; ‘nava’ means new. Man is not new; he is old!