In plain words
A leaf, a flower, a fruit, water: whatever we offer to God, it is as good as offering all! For the handful of beaten rice Kucela gave, Kṛṣṇa gave him abundant fortune. Had he not given even that handful of beaten rice, no fortune would have come to Kucela. We must give something or other. Only when we give up one thing can we receive another. Even in worldly dealings, only when we fling five rupees in the shopkeeper's face does he fling a handkerchief in ours! Kṛṣṇa began to call past memories to mind. It was the day of the Saṅkrānti festival. I was eating sugarcane. My little finger got cut. Rukmiṇī sent her maid inside, to bring a cloth. Satyabhāmā ran off to fetch a cloth. Draupadī at once tore the end of her sari and bound up the finger. She tore the sari she was wearing and gave it up for Me! What she gave Him was two inches of cloth; He said ‘Akṣayam’, meaning He would make that very cloth never-ending. That very cloth became never-ending and turned into all those saris!
Only when we give to another do we gain endless Ānanda. But we are not ready to give; we are ready only to take. We do not set about doing holy actions. We say we do not want the fruits of sinful actions, yet we go forward to do sinful actions. We say we want the fruit of meritorious actions, but we hang back from doing meritorious actions. This is the mistake we make. If we hope for the fruit of meritorious action, we must do meritorious actions. If we do not want the fruit of sinful actions, we must not do sinful actions. If we do sinful actions and say we do not want the result, how can that work? If you plant a mango tree, only mangoes will come. If you plant a neem tree and want it to bear mangoes, will it bear them? Whatever fruit you hope for, you must plant that fruit's seed. If the seed is one, how can a different fruit be had?
A spotless heart for the Ever-pure
Both joy and sorrow are held within the very actions we do. If we wish to experience joy without end, we must take in good feelings. Holy thoughts must always arise.