In plain words
So, to keep such feelings from coming into you: this is because it is Prakṛti; that is why ‘Sītārāma’, ‘Pārvatīparameśvara’. What does it mean? Pārvatī is not a woman. Lakṣmī is not a woman. Rādhā is not a woman. Prakṛti comes first. After thinking of Prakṛti we think of the Paramātma. So, without thinking first of this Prakṛti, we think only of the Paramātma. That is a noble feeling. Many, though you do not know it, all of these foreigners: Lord Rama goes about with Sītā. Lord Siva goes about with Pārvatī. Why should I not go about? In that way they go down a crooked path. Why such teachings began long ago is this: they laid all this down for the ideal that we should follow Prakṛti first and attain the Paramātma. Rādhākṛṣṇa does not mean here that Rādhā is a woman and Kṛṣṇa is a man. Rādhā means Prakṛti. Rādhā. Dharā. She is the one who is Prakṛti. He chooses that Prakṛti. He sustains Prakṛti. That is why: what does Mādhava mean? Mā-dhava. Dhava means husband. Lakṣmīnātha. Lokanātha. Jīvanātha: in that sense, Mādhava. What does husband mean? Master: it is just the union of Prakṛti and the Paramātma. So today we are in Prakṛti. We are experiencing Prakṛti. We need not think of Prakṛti. We think of the Paramātma. So from today we must leave such a Prakṛti-tattva and enter the Paramātma-tattva. If we stay in Prakṛti alone, the feelings of Prakṛti, the natures of Prakṛti, the thoughts of Prakṛti and the acts of Prakṛti too keep entering us. Then there are some other songs you sing. Some of them are songs without meaning. You sing them with Prema. But we must grasp their meaning too. Now you sing of Gaṇapati. We keep singing ‘Īśvara-putra’. But having said that Gaṇapati is Īśvara's son, then Īśvara too comes as Gaṇapati. At one time, looked at from your point of view, Gaṇapati becomes Pārvatī's son. Īśvara becomes the husband. After that, when you say ‘Sai Gaṇeśa’, we have put a trunk on Him again. On one side we say ‘Īśvara’. Then we say ‘Sai Gaṇeśa’. Gaṇeśa means He becomes Īśvara's son. He Himself is Īśvara. How can He Himself be Īśvara's son? It does not make proper sense. You sing them with Prema, but because outsiders follow them, it gives some room for criticising this. Omit all the songs where the feminine comes in. So within all this of God's, sing as many names as you like: Rāmā, Kṛṣṇā, Govindā, Nārāyaṇā, Madhusūdanā. And if there is anything more, since the Mother is the divine Mother of the world, you may use the Mother's Name. But give up only this business of husband and wife.