In plain words
A certain king used to beg everyone who came to teach him the path fit for Mokṣa. Each of them, taking up some book or other, taking up the path of the great ones, would say whatever occurred to him and go away. But a servant who was always at that Mahārāja's side kept listening to all these teachings. Thinking, What! This Mahārāja, even in such a state, is only wasting his time, the time meant for Mokṣa, he resolved that he must give him the right answer; and one evening, while the king was talking with many people in the central hall, this servant came running in from outside, shouting loudly. Then the king got up and asked, ‘What is it? What is the reason for all this uproar?’ ‘All the camels in our Zoo are climbing up onto the terrace and going away!’ he shouted. The king asked, ‘What camels? What climbing onto terraces?’ ‘If you, living in pleasures, can climb up to Mokṣa, there is nothing surprising in camels climbing onto a terrace,’ he said. That is: ‘Because you have dedicated your life to these pleasures, the place called tyāga will not come to you’: this he taught the one at his side, in many ways. That day the king grasped the truth, gave up all attachment, and from that day set himself to think of God always, at all times and in every state.
Worshipping Pictures While Harming the Living Is Not Right
If we keep our citta sunk in worldly concerns, then though we join satsaṅga only in our spiritual moods, though we practise many sādhanas, though we have the darśan of many elders, we gain no fruit at all. Set your citta in Divinity and do all your worldly work; you will surely be blessed. That way, you become one who has done every karma for the pleasure of God. But under the sway of this Kali Age every sādhaka, too, is in a state where he cannot recognise what the goal is or what the inner meaning is, and he is sinking lower day by day. When the Satya that is the root and support has been recognised, no sādhanas need be done: this too is the teaching of this Vedānta.