In plain words
But those filled with the vāsanās of the world do not understand these things. Here is a small example.
Do the trees know the juice in their fruit? Do the creepers enjoy the fragrance in their flowers? Do the books enjoy the sweet savour in the poems? How can the scholar of pravṛtti know the scholarship whose essence is nivṛtti?
The tree is laden with fruit. But the tree does not know the sweetness of that fruit at all. The creeper does not know the fragrance in the flower at all. Though divine humanness goes with every human being as his companion, man does not understand its nature.
We need not take refuge in everything for the sake of the principle of the Ātma. There is no need to go to everyone. But, to come to know this, you must go to great souls who know it, learn from them up to a point, and do your sādhanas by yourself, for yourself. You must inquire. The guru can tell you, but the one who must do it is you yourself. A mother loves her child. To teach the child to speak, the mother tries to say the words and make the child say them; she does not put her own mouth into the child's mouth and speak. Our Vedas, Śāstras, Purāṇas and Itihāsas teach holy things. But merely reading the books brings no gain. They must be put into practice.
First of all we must kill the turbulence of the senses. For this, many people control their food to some extent. This is mere madness, a mark of Ajñāna. This is not what matters. Once Satya is known, the turbulence subsides of itself.
Does the snake die if you beat the anthill? Do the enjoyments of the senses cease if you punish your own body? Does one become a knower of the Ātma merely by giving up hunger and thirst? If one does not know who one is, how can the knowledge of the Real arise?
Without first trying to know who one is, whatever one does is of no gain.
Make your individuality one with the principle of Brahman
Embodiments of Prema! Because it has sunk into the darkness of Ajñāna, humanness has become like a drop of water. Its Prema too has grown narrow and selfish, and is no more than an atom in size. There is no breadth in it to love others besides oneself and one's own. But the Prema of divinity is like the vast ocean. Can a drop of water go up to this ocean and compare itself with the ocean at all? Such an effort is like an ant going to heaven. By this you can grasp nothing of Satya. But if you want to attain the form of the ocean, take another path. Though you are only a drop, put that drop into the ocean. Only then do the two become one. The knower of Brahman becomes Brahman itself. If you keep the drops apart and try to describe the ocean, there is no gain. God cannot be known in the least. Make your own principle one with the principle of Brahman.