In plain words
Only when Dharma is rightly practised does it become fit to be spread and taught
Though Dharma is present everywhere, it lies covered with the ash of ignorance, Ahaṅkāra and possessiveness, as ash covers fire, as moss covers water, as a film covers the eye; the inner meaning here is to remove this ash and show the world its true form. It is this that has come to be called propagation. Propagating Dharma is not merely spreading something that is not there. The very ground of this propagation is practice! Only when the mind practises it does this Dharma become fit, at its proper level, to be spread and taught. It is because spreading and teaching of this kind have dwindled in the world today that Dharma, Satya and justice have passed out of sight and vanished. What does that mean? They are not seen. They are there. But they are not seen. How so? Water covered with earth is not seen by our eyes. When the earth between the water and the eye is taken away, the water comes into view. Water lies held everywhere within the earth. But the earth in between hides that water from us. In just the same way, what stands between Dharma and us is the lack of practice. What blocks it is the lack of full faith in practice. Books are spread about in great numbers. Speeches, too, go on in plenty. But teaching that takes the form of practice has dwindled away. Wearied by this parrot-talk, his heart overheated, man sinks into doubt and confusion of many kinds. So only when we spread it today in the form of practice will it reveal itself to us along the proper path and in its right form.
Every action has its fruit
Earth, water, fire, air, space, śravaṇa, which is time, the Ātma and the mind: all these are forms of substance. Substances, as they are called, belong to the science of reasoning, tarka. Tarka is that which demonstrates a thing in the form of action. That is why good and bad keep yielding their own kind of fruit in the form of action. Every action has its fruit.