In plain words
We take a small boat and go in it. In the same way, if we wish to experience endless divinity, we must rely on the boat called some Name or other. Such supports are needed at the start, but we must not waste our whole life on them alone. Whoever does whatever service, there must be no show or Ahaṅkāra, “I am serving society.” You are doing your own service. You are doing it for God. The feeling “We are doing it for others” must go far away. “I am serving God alone.” Suppose you are bathing the children at home: think, “I am doing abhiṣeka to God.” When you are serving food to your husband or your children, think, “I am offering naivedya to God.” Some beggar comes. When you give him a handful of food, think, “I have fed my God with food.” The one who asks is a beggar, but the one who enjoys it is the Ātma. Suppose you are cutting vegetables at home to make a sauce: why should you think, “Ayyo, I am cutting vegetables”? Think, “With this sword called Jñāna I am cutting up the bad qualities called kāma and krodha.” Suppose you are sweeping your house. There is no need to think, “Ayyo, however often I clean this wretched house, it is only like this.” Think, “I am making my heart pure.” Suppose you are making chapātīs at home. “This wretched food: however many chapātīs I eat, this belly is never full. Whenever you look, chapātīs; morning and evening, chapātīs”: do not curse it in that way. Think, “I am making my heart broad.” In the same way, if we look on every task we do in daily life as service to God, why any other tapas than this? Why any other dhyāna than this? Why any sādhana other than this?
So, taking the heart itself as the Ātma, we must journey on the path that makes the heart melt. Prema alone melts that heart. Narasimhan said that so many thousands come from so many countries, so many regions, and no one sends them any invitation. No one puts an advertisement in the papers. That principle of Prema itself melts their hearts and makes them come here. Through that Prema alone can we achieve anything at all. Look on that principle of Prema as the Ātma-principle itself. If the heart does not melt, however many sādhanas one does, however many words one speaks, however many lectures one gives, all of it becomes as useless as moonlight in the forest. By our sādhanas our heart must melt. That melted heart must be moved. We must increase the ache of our heart. We must share it with all around.