In plain words
The worm at the root brings the tree itself down
The blight-worm that gets in ruins every branch and twig; the wicked man who gets in spoils the virtuous.
And who is the wicked man? One who only acts a part. One who goes about proclaiming ‘Bhakti, Bhakti’ while his conduct is the opposite: he is the wicked man. One who lives by the trick of one thing inside and another outside is the wicked man. To want evil within and act outwardly as if one wanted good: that is wickedness. So do not go near such a wicked man. It is through such people that good people are spoiled in the world today. So we must not let such feelings into our heart at all.
A school without a teacher, a temple without God, a wire without current, a crop without water: all are useless
Prema is of two kinds: one is Prema for the body, the other divine Prema. Love of the body is the root cause of the fear, delusion, grief and anarchy in the world today! Love of the body is the root cause of injustice, wrong conduct and Adharma! This love of the body is the root cause of misrule, of war, of everything! In the end this love of the body is destroying the world itself. But divine Prema builds the world. It gives Śānti, courage, daring and Ānanda. Divine Prema knows no distinctions of any kind. Today, through possessiveness and attachment, people foster love of the body and so fall into sorrow upon sorrow. That was the root cause of the Bhārata war! ‘My sons and the sons of Pāṇḍu’, said Dhṛtarāṣṭra. It was through this Ahaṅkāra called possessiveness that all the Kauravas were destroyed. Keep love of the body, but only as far as it should go! If the consciousness that is Divinity is not there within, what is the use of having a body? A school without a teacher, a temple without God, a wire without current, a crop without water: things like these come to nothing. What use are they? We cannot become human merely by telling ourselves, ‘We are human, we are human.’ We must develop divine Prema. We must offer our Ahaṅkāra to God. We must hold on to our determination until we achieve whatever we have set out to achieve.