In plain words
So bhajan, japa and dhyāna need discipline. There was no such discipline there. The bhajan went on, calling to mind the names Rāma, Kṛṣṇa, Govinda. Meanwhile Śivānanda woke from his sleep, called a disciple and asked, ‘What is the prasādam today?’ ‘Boiled roots and tubers,’ he said. Śivānanda began the bhajan, ‘Rāmā, Kṛṣṇa, Govinda’. Meanwhile another disciple, saying he would sing a bhajan in Tamil, began, ‘Come along, come along, come along in the horse cart, come along without a ticket.’ Then I said, what is this, singing bhajans like this without discipline or concentration? Meanwhile all our people grew fed up and left the place. After that no one went to the bhajan. One day they called me and asked me to speak about brahmacarya. I went on speaking about brahmacarya from the vision of the Ātma, with purity. The true sannyāsī is like the river Gaṅgā. For rivers rush and run to meet the ocean, their lord. Whatever obstacles and hindrances come, they face them and strive to merge in the ocean, their goal and destination. So rivers are the true sannyāsīs, I taught. ‘Who is this who has spoken so subtly?’ said Śivānanda. I created a rudrākṣa mālā, put it round his neck and gave it to him as a birthday gift.
Concentration greatly needs the feeling of God
In the culture of Bhārata every word has a great meaning. No one is looking into it. Purity is the chief thing in brahmacarya, they said; and this purity can be found in those in the gṛhastha āśrama too. So they call cultivating purity brahmacarya. Brahmacarya is present in every āśrama. Moving with Brahman is called brahmacarya. Tenāli Rāmakṛṣṇa used to give counsel as an all-knowing man at the court of Śrī Kṛṣṇadevarāya.