In plain words
Embodiments of Prema! Looking at the scene that meets your eyes, you say, ‘This is Satya.’ But this is not Satya. What is, is God alone, for all time. Taking all the scenes the eye sees to be Satya, you are wasting time. None of these is Satya. Satya means that which stands firm, without change, in all three times. That itself is God. What madness it is to take a scene that changes from moment to moment for Satya! Today a student, tomorrow an officer, the day after a retired officer. Of these, which is Satya? Is the student Satya? Is the officer Satya? Is the retired officer Satya? Before the wedding, who is the husband? Who is the wife? After the wedding, people say, ‘husband and wife’. How long does this bond last? That too is only for a while. In this way, every thing and every deed seen in the world is impermanent! God is not like that. God yesterday, God tomorrow, God the day after. God is God for ever! Without faith in that Divinity, Satya and eternal, you look at scenes that are impermanent and fleeting and are deluded into thinking that they alone are Satya. So, first of all, try to recognise what Satya is. Only when you recognise Satya do you become those who have recognised everything. If you do not recognise Satya, however many things you recognise, there is no gain. All of them are impermanent! The whole world is only what changes! Lofty mountains, large rivers, huge trees with many branches, which make it a beautiful country: so we describe the land of Bhārata. Today's mountain may turn into a hillock tomorrow. What is a little stream today may turn into a great river tomorrow. Keeping in view this impermanent, unreal world and putting your faith in it, you forget the God who is Satya. This itself is the root cause of your troubles, your losses and your sorrows. ‘Troubles are coming,’ people say. From where are they coming? The troubles you go through are nothing but the fruits of your own resolves and karmas. Every single thing in the world is of the kind that changes! What does not change is the one God alone. Keeping such a God in our heart, offering our Prema to that God alone, we must experience Ānanda. That itself is the chief duty of man.
What is this life? Eating, drinking, sleeping, dying... Is this all? With only this much, in what way can we say that humanness is sacred? When man is born he is very pure. Little by little, as he grows, he goes on losing that purity. That is not right. He must stay pure for ever. Look at Me: when I was born, I was a boy. I am a boy for ever! Yet, in the body, many changes keep taking place. These changes are merely physical. The body, Manas, the life-breath, Buddhi: all these are physical. And then the six inner foes, desire, anger and the rest, are only our delusions! Because of these alone we are unable to perceive the Ātma. ‘Of all creatures, a human birth is hard to win,’ they said. Having taken this human birth, so hard to win, we must perceive the Ātma within us; we must not try to know these worldly, physical matters. He alone who has perceived the Ātma is liberated. He alone who keeps the vision of the Ātma ever in his heart is liberated.