In plain words
When they go to some holy place, or to some sacred bathing-place, or at the time of having the darśan, the touch and the conversation of some elder, they declare their Bhakti and śraddhā beautifully and keep displaying them. Once they leave that place, that Bhakti and that śraddhā vanish right there with the place. With just this in view, it was said in the Bhagavad Gītā, ‘Satatamu yoginaḥ.’ At all times you must be a yogi; at all times you must be a devotee. At all times you must remain a jñāni, and not turn into one thing at one time and something else at another: that cannot be, it said. Our calm, our patience, our good qualities: we give them their due worth merely in the pūjā room and there only, or only at the time of dhyāna. Then, the very moment we step out of the pūjā room, we bid them farewell and go back to developing the opposite qualities. Good qualities of this kind, or a calm nature, can never be appointed for one time only; they are not things to be kept within one boundary only; there is no doubt at all in saying that to set out on the way of keeping them in practice all through life is the sacred path. Here is a small example of this. A man, because some need of his own had come up, set out at night to make a journey of 10 miles through a thick forest. He took a hurricane lantern. Its light spread only four yards, or five. Very well! He went into the forest and lit the hurricane lantern. That man, short of sense, sat down forlorn, thinking, ‘Its light reaches only five or six yards; how can I travel through this forest?’ Just then a sannyāsī had set out and was coming along that very path. Then: ‘My son! Where are you going? Why are you worrying?’ the sannyāsī asked. “Swāmī! I have to travel a distance of ten miles. This light reaches only four or five yards. How can I travel these ten miles? I am very worried,” he said. ‘You silly fellow! Even though that light spreads only four or five yards, take that light along on the journey with you too.