In plain words
Eternal Ānanda, giver of the highest joy, Jñāna alone in form, beyond the pairs of opposites, like the sky, the goal of ‘Tat tvam asi’ and the rest, one, eternal, stainless, unmoving, the onlooker of every mind …
That itself is the Ātma. Call it Ātma, call it mind, call it consciousness: they are all one and the same. But we give certain names separately. These are names given only for recognition; they do not prove Satya.
If you want Mukti, believe ‘I am the Ātma’
They gave this body the name ‘Satyam’. They gave the name only to the body; they did not give it to me. I am not the body. I am not the body, I am not the mind, I am not the Buddhi, I am not the Chitta, I am not imagination. Bhagavan is Bhagavan. All of you must hold that faith firmly. But in some people, through food and pastimes and through the taint of company, the mind changes to some extent. Tell me your company, I shall tell you what you are. Whatever sort of people you keep company with, that is the sort of person you become. So join satsaṅga.
From good company, freedom from attachment; from freedom from attachment, freedom from delusion; from freedom from delusion, the unmoving Principle; from the unmoving Principle, liberation in this very life.
Well, Mukti will come to every one. But when? When you make firm the faith ‘I am the Ātma’, Mukti comes to you in a single moment. ‘Swami is right within me. I myself am Swami’: think this. But with a wavering mind, if you tell yourself “I am Swami, I am Swami”, it is of no use. With a steady mind you must think, ‘I myself am Swami, I am God’. When you attain such steadiness of Buddhi, then alone will you attain the divinity that is ‘without attributes, stainless, eternal, the abode, ever pure, awakened, free, of spotless form’.