In plain words
Each human being's resolve is itself in the form of a seed. As long as there are resolves, we cannot escape birth. On the day one can become free of resolve, on that very day, punarjanma na vidyate. There can be no rebirth. For one to become so sacred, free of resolve, the chief path to this is none other than offering. Yet even this offering has certain limits. In the world, at the house of a very rich man or at the house of a very high official, we cannot just walk in freely. At that gate there are some sepoys, or Gurkhas, or watchmen. When even a rich man of some limited wealth, even officials of some limited power, have rules that keep you from walking in freely like this, it cannot be that there are no rules, no limits, for entering the mansion of God, the Lord of all, God, full of all power, God, who knows all. For us to enter the mansion called Mokṣa, there is one main gate. At that gate there are always two sepoys. That main gate itself is Śaraṇāgati. The sepoys there are none other than śama and dama. We must gain entry through the main gate called Śaraṇāgati, past the sepoys called śama and dama. However surrendered you may be, if you still do not practise śama, dama and the rest, you cannot enter God's mansion. This śama, dama and the rest means curbing the inner and outer senses. But today a sādhaka with mastery of the senses is rarely to be seen. Wherever you look, crooked ways of living are to be seen, but ways as clear as crystal are not seen at all. Though their forms are human forms, their intellects are growing into the form of monkeys. Where they should laugh, they weep. Where they should weep, they grin. When it is all pretence, how can it be the true form? As long as there are such pretended guises, God, the very form of compassion, will not appear to our eyes. All the guises on this outer stage can be called acting; but purity of the Ātma within, that alone, can be called ‘Nārāyaṇa’. If we dedicate our life to such physical enjoyments and pleasures and still say we long for the principle of God, this will never be a path that bears fruit.