In plain words
This is selfishness. This is personal selfishness. But God has no selfishness of any kind. To give room for argument and counter-argument over what God does is want of sense. We should think, ‘Whatever the reasons behind this may be, God does nothing without a reason.’ To pray to God and to do the sādhana that wins His grace is a person's duty; there is no room at all to criticise it or to argue about it. God may do anything.
When Sakkubāī wanted to go to Paṇḍharpur, she had to take her parents-in-law's command upon her head. On the one side was this; on the other she was thinking of God. At that moment Kṛṣṇa could have sent Sakkubāī to Paṇḍharpur, could He not? Had God done that, Sakkubāī would have fallen into disgrace for defying her husband's command. To show Sakkubāī as an example of one who keeps both the dharma of this world and the dharma of the next, what did Kṛṣṇa do? He took Sakkubāī's form and bore the hardships in her mother-in-law's house. What for? What was the reason? To protect His devotee, God is ready to take on any number of forms and to go through any number of ways Himself. Here He had to look after the devotee's good name in the world to some extent. And then the spiritual path must not be lost in the least. No one but He knows both of these. Men think only as far as it concerns themselves. They have no knowledge of what concerns everything. On one side we must show the world an example. On the other, we must satisfy God too.
Students must follow both these paths well. We have come as students. So we must show other students exemplary conduct. We must also give true satisfaction to the parents who bore us, reared us and brought us up. We must bring a good name to the Institute where we studied too. The essence of all three lies in our conduct alone.