In plain words
Is it not because we trust that the washerman will clean our clothes, iron them and bring them back, that we hand him our costly garments? Without that trust the clothes would not be cleaned; our minds too would not be cleansed.
In the same way, we must trust the Indweller and receive Ānanda. In this, imitation is wrong. ‘Never believe another's word. One must experience it for oneself,’ they imagine, deluded. Just as, out of faith in the mother, we believe one man to be our father, we must believe that the power pervading all Nature is divinity. When news of something that happened somewhere comes in the paper, the moment we see it, without having witnessed anything ourselves, out of faith in that editor we swell with joy if the news is good; if not, we sink!
The gaiety, or else the despair and dejection, in the stories that writers write trouble their readers too. We take the invented scenes of appealing films for Satya, and all sorts of feelings like these arise in us: pity, sorrow, fright and alarm, excitement, delight. People trust the film director, the editor and the writers of stories, but they do not trust the Lord of the world, who protects and punishes, nurtures and rules. They give in to the magic of words, but they will not trust the mantras and try to discover the divinity in the heart. One word holds true for ever. No one who trusted has ever come to ruin.
There are millions upon millions of people of Bhārata who trusted God and spent their whole lives in joy, with Śānti and contentment. Atheism is a rebel; but believe this: atheism came only to make faith in God grow. If there were no darkness, light would have no value. If there were no hunger, who would long for food? If there were no death, even a mother would not love her child. Selfishness is the root cause of this. They forget God altogether; and if it is not fulfilled, there is hatred of God! So if we follow the path free of selfishness, divine grace will surely come. ‘Ask not, O mind!’ he warned. It is enough to earn the right; there is no need to ask. What did Śabarī ask for! What did the world ask for? When both purity and worthiness are there, He comes walking of His own accord. Where there is purity of citta and mastery of the senses, God's grace is surely won. We can attain happiness and Śānti. Of this there is no doubt at all.
Not knowing that true Ānanda is not to be found in the outer world, people are wasting both time and body. There is no happiness in providing for a family or in the affection of kin and friends; it lies hidden in one's own heart. Through infatuation with family, many go astray and turn into adulterers and thieves. As long as the delusion of the body remains, there is no escape from weakness. We must pray to, worship and delight in the very svarūpa of the Indweller.
Yoga-śakti, kriyā-śakti and Ātma-śakti: these three joined in one, that is the principle of the Avatāra. Avataraṇa does not mean coming down from a higher place to a lower one. To lift up man, who is a being of the guṇas, He must come as a being of the guṇas. Because of this, we must not ascribe the least smallness to the divine principle.