In plain words
We must turn the principle of our life itself into the principle of God. We must not enter into trade with God in order to receive Ānanda from Him. To think of pleasing God with prayers and so getting our wishes fulfilled is a wholly wrong path. We must give up the aim of getting some return from God. From time without beginning, believers have sunk in this delusion, followed the wrong path, and fallen into unrest.
Worldly life and spiritual life are not two separate things
As impermanent as the body is, so impermanent too are the joys gained through the body. The Ānanda experienced in steady meditation on the principle of the Ātma is joined with the principle of God; and so, as much as God is Satya, so much is that Ānanda too Satya. Whatever work you do, you must offer it in the feeling that it is for the pleasure of God. Do not hold to distinctions, saying ‘This is my work, this is God's work’. Even when God has vessels, those vessels may pass through changing states, but the principle of the Ātma passes through no state at all. Some people keep saying, ‘Worldly life is one thing, spiritual life another’. These two are not separate; they are but one.
In the body dwells the jīva, in the heart dwells God; the two play together, and part from each other; there is one who holds the strings and makes the puppets play; the two are within the one, the two join and become one.
In a single seed there are two halves. Those two together are one. The inert and the conscious have both taken on one single form. The spiritual and the worldly are not separate. They are like the two halves in one seed. Only when we see it this way and follow a path bound to practice in daily life does true Brahmānanda come.
What God wants is pure Prema and selfless service
The body is like a bubble on water. Yet as long as it lasts, we must do worthwhile deeds with it. Do not think that happiness comes from wealth. Happiness comes from virtue alone. So we must strive to become people of good qualities. We must enter the path of good conduct. We must foster good feelings. Most important of all is the path of service. Whoever it is you serve, regard it as service to the Lord. Do not regard anyone as wretched, as having no one to turn to, as having no protector. ‘Protector of protectors, the Protector with no protector.’ God is the protector of all. God has no protector at all. In truth, the one with no protector is God alone. All of you, do service to society as far as your strength allows, and strive to support the people who are in hardship and in sorrow. Though they have strength of body and mind, many young men only eat and roam about; they do not take up service to society. If a man takes his own belly for Kailāsa, his iron safe for Vaikuṇṭha, and his own comfort for the joys of heaven... that becomes nothing but demonic nature. Heaven, Vaikuṇṭha and Kailāsa all lie within the very karma we do. Our own karma is the root cause of our joys and sorrows too. Do not swagger, thinking you are doing well even though you have sinned. The seed of sin takes some time to grow into a tree that bears fruit. In the very end, there is no escaping the fruit. We commit sin and say we do not want the fruit of sin. We do no meritorious deeds and yet want the fruit of merit. How can divinity shine in such people?