In plain words
So the bad feelings, bad qualities, bad thoughts, selfishness and Ahaṅkāra within us must be removed first of all. Only then does our feeling of Prema arise in it.
A heart that has Prema is itself the true, holy heart. So we must enter service with the feeling of Prema. But we must not hanker after name and fame. Fame is not something we get simply by buying it. It is not a thing we receive from someone else. This thing called fame is like a stream. It may be born very small. Little by little it may grow and become big. So we must not hanker after fame and honours. We must develop the citta that fulfils its duty. But such a citta comes to us only through one thing: service. A man who cannot serve is no man at all. We must believe ourselves to be men born for service. If we are to make such holy humanness fruitful, we must take part in social service of this kind. Even if we do the least bit of service, as good people, on a good path, with a good mind, we become worthy to receive greatness of many kinds. The service may be small. But we must make the heart great. Though you give a cow worthless grass, it gives holy milk. In the same way, though your service be very small, and to whatever kind of people it is done, if it is done with a holy heart it takes shape as a great fruit. We must not serve with the fruit as our aim. This is my duty. We must develop the conviction, "I am one born for the sake of this service." Every being in the world is only a servant of the others; none is greater than another. People of every level must do the services proper to that level. In the body there are many limbs. But the work the hands do, the legs cannot do. The work the feet do, the hands cannot do. The work the eyes do, the ears cannot do. The fruit the ears enjoy, the eyes cannot enjoy. In the same way, people may be of many kinds. Their strength and ability may differ from one to another. But each, according to his own strength, as suits his own heart, as suits his own level, must take part in service itself. Each may practise japa, dhyāna, pūjā and vratas like these privately, according to his own wish, as much as he likes. For, rather than doing these japa and tapas, yāgas and yajñas,