In plain words
This wave-like procession of forms, established beginninglessly, continues in eternal form for endless time — this is the belief of Bharatiyas. That man is not merely a possessor of a gross body, but that within this gross body there exists a subtle body called the mind; that within that, in turn, there exists yet another thing still more glorious, which transcends both the gross and the subtle bodies and abides beyond them — this is the so-called jīvātma, which too exists; and that it has no beginning or end and does not even know the word 'death' — this is the Bharatiya highest teaching.
Another thing: Bharatiyas hold the extraordinary notion that the jīva keeps taking on one body after another until it attains liberation and reaches the state where the need to be born no longer arises. This notion is found nowhere among any other nation in the world. This is the doctrine of transmigration that the Bharatiya scriptures declare — the doctrine concerning the eternality of souls. Among the various sects among us, this is one of the matters unanimously accepted. On the question of the relationship between the Ātma and God, our views may differ. According to one school, God and the Ātma are always two different entities. According to another, this soul is a single particle within that infinite stream. According to yet another, the two are not different at all. But the Ātma is devoid of beginning and end. Since it has no birth, death too does not exist for it. So long as no harm comes to the root idea that, until it attains its full completeness within the human body,