In plain words
Everyone knows that among the countless multitudes of living beings in this endless world, human beings stand foremost; yet so long as human beings remain as animals, on a level with the beasts, they cannot realise the Paramātma and win the fulfilment of their birth. To be born a man, to live as Mādhava, to attain Divinity and rejoice in it: that alone is man's goal.
To win a sacred humanness and then lead that very distinction into the path of vikṣepa is the first Ajñāna. It is most necessary to carry it along the path of sādhana, recognise Satya and cross over bhava.
One who knows the principle of karma well does not use that word for every task he does. To be sunk first of all in the karmas of moha, then to practise the karmas of Dharma, to merge in Brahma-karma and discover Ātma-karma: that alone is the mark of the highest life.
Though Caitanya is present in human beings, and though that Caitanya comes forth in many forms, the radiance of Prema alone is the root and support of that Caitanya. It is beyond anyone to settle that Prema is like this or like that. Yet there is no one in the world without some Prema, more or less. It is natural for Prema to show itself in various ways, according to the path, the person and the object. But Prema is not a quality that is produced; it is self-existent. To cast it off is a thing that cannot be done! It is the pure radiance of the Ātma. To call the ordinary ties of feeling in everyday life ‘Prema’ is a mistake.
For the Prema that parents show their children and children show their parents, the right name is vātsalya; for the Prema of wife and husband that name will not do; moha is the right word. The Prema among friends and relatives is truly anurāga, not Prema. The liking and infatuation that grow for things, for goods and vehicles, should be called icchā. Only for the sacred Bhakti that arises towards the Paramātma is the name Prema fitting. But to take for Prema the feelings that spring up for money, for sons, for name and fame is folly itself. Only the Prema that arises towards God is supremely sacred; it is something that does not change at any time at all. Pleasure. Pain, joy and gain, blame and praise, troubles: whatever comes or goes. It does not sink, it does not lessen.
Human beings must look on hardships and losses as sacred friends: “Na sukhāllabhate sukhaṃ.” In the light, light has no value at all; it is in the darkness itself that we long for light and try to reach it.