In plain words
But it is not so the other way: if one good boy joins ten bad boys, he turns into the eleventh thief. So when we want to make friends, we must make friends with one who has good conduct, good thoughts, good counsel and good feelings. Otherwise it is enough to say Hello Hello How are you good bye. So, with them we want no hatred. We want no friendship with them either. Today many children, lacking the power of vicāraṇa that examines what is eternal and what is not, fall into bad company, sink into evil thoughts and waste their whole lives.
So when we pass easily through these four gates, śama, vicāraṇa, tṛpti and satsaṅga, divinity dawns within us.
God is not in some separate land; God is in one's own body. Sin is not in some foreign land apart; it clings to the deeds one does oneself.
Sins do not fall on us from some country or from somewhere else. Sin lies in the very deeds we do. Who is a sinner here? Hero becomes zero if he forgets God: he is the sinner. To be born as human beings and to forget divinity is the great sin. One who forgets this divinity falls into the demonic. One who has the demonic in him casts off kindness and courtesy entirely. So the true good fortune is to put away the bad qualities, so that we can nourish the good qualities in us. In the past they said, ‘Tasmai namaḥkarmaṇe.’ God has no single form. No single Name. In such a state, at the very first, all the ṛṣis came together. They said, ‘Tasmai namaḥkarmaṇe.’ That is: ‘O God, whose form is sukha! Salutations to You,’ they said. What does sukha mean here? Building great mansions, gathering every comfort, swelling the belly with the five delicacies and sweet rice, living at ease as one pleases: this is not sukha. This is the sukha of the body. Bodily sukha. Su: good. Kha: vast. M: infinite. To attain the good and infinite principle is sukha, they said.
When the Mahārāja of Tañjāvūr brought and laid before him jewels and treasures set with diamonds, cat’s-eyes, rubies, emeralds, gomedhas and topazes, Tyāgarāja said, ‘Is wealth great happiness, or is the presence of God great happiness? Tell me truly, O mind,’ he said. O mind! ‘Is wealth happiness, or Your presence? Tell me,’ he said. True sukha for us is to experience the infinite divinity: that is our sukha.