In plain words
This man saw it: 'Hey, you! This is my dhoti,' he said. 'No, sir! It is the great king's,' he said. This man said firmly, 'The king himself gave it to me; it is mine.' The argument finally came to blows. Every time the washerman struck the devotee, he cried out in anguish, 'Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa'. At that moment Nārāyaṇa rose from His throne and took four steps. The next minute He turned back and sat down on the throne again. Lakṣmī asked, 'What is it, my Lord? You got up, took four steps, and came back again and sat down.' There is no need to go any more. Unable to bear the pain, the devotee struck the washerman back. 'If he had not hit back, I would have gone Myself and saved him,' said Viṣṇu.
God's help
As long as a man relies on his own strength, God does not help at all. Gajendra too, with one foot in the water and the other out, held tight with his trunk to the screw-pine on the bank and called, 'Save me, save me!' But then, unable to free himself from the crocodile's grip, he gave up wholly the attempt to save himself by his own strength and called out at the top of his voice, 'Save me, O Īśvara!' Only then did Viṣṇu send the discus called Sudarśana. Sudarśana means good vision. In worldly matters one does have to rely on one's own strength! But in the matter of God, one must rely on God alone. Only in doing all actions for the pleasure of God is there the feeling of complete surrender. One must not think, 'I alone must enjoy.' If you give up Ahaṅkāra in action and selfishness in experience, that itself is yoga. Yoga itself is tyāga.
You are students. You have come here to study. You must fix your attention on that alone and achieve success. If you set your mind on two things, it cannot be done. A student must remain a student. Today's students are 99 per cent seekers of worldly things! Push those things aside. Keep your mind on learning alone. After your studies, if you want, you may enter into worldly things.