In plain words
A vast form. It makes even form itself forgotten. It makes a man forget himself. It looks on fellow men as no more than a blade of grass. It believes that there is no one greater than itself. This is its power. The man sunk in its intoxication goes mad and keeps his eyes shut all the time. The man of Ahaṅkāra cannot see good and bad at all. As long as there is such Ahaṅkāra, man's divinity makes no sense to him at all. He sinks lower than a beast, lower than the demonic. To root out this Ahaṅkāra, what must be offered up today is the bad qualities. But humanity is not travelling toward such divinity or toward purity. However many kinds of discourses one hears, however long one has been in satsaṅga, though one has heard many hundreds of discourses, the conduct of the mind stays just where it was. People fill their heads with subjects, with śāstras, with many books, but they do not try to fill the heart with Prema. They only listen; they do not try to taste this Ānanda. Every year they take part in this gathering. They hear the discourses. They have lived in the āśrama for a long time. If each one asks himself how far his mind has changed, there has been no change at all. What is the reason! Take a stone ball and plunge it in water: it may stay in the water, but not one drop of water enters the ball. The mind has turned into a heart like stone. People are becoming stone-hearted, but they are not becoming hearts of sacred Prema. So you must try to become hearts of Prema. It is through Prema alone that man does many kinds of sacred deeds. Without that Prema there is no life at all. But no one even asks what its outcome will be in the days ahead. People are thrown into a flurry only over this present life. However many powers there may be, however much wealth, however great one's knowledge and wisdom, though one be a master of the śāstras, without the power of God all powers are weak.
Though one has strength of arm and strength of mind, without the power of God he comes to grief. A man as great as Karṇa, what became of him at last? Do not forget so good a word.
The strength Karṇa had, the power Karṇa had, the power of intellect, many kinds of power, all these he had; but because he lacked the power of God, Karṇa came to that end.
We must take sacred feelings into our hearts. We must take divine feelings into our hearts. We must keep remembering the divine feelings the maharṣis handed down. Performing all the yajñas, yāgas and other rites is for the sake of life.