In plain words
Our actions must be pure. By them we can gain as much result as we need. As the dough, so the bread. As the food, so the belch. In just the same way, we must enter into good actions. We must show the truth that human birth has come forth to demonstrate an ideal.
Embodiments of Prema! Human life is supreme. It is full of nobility. It is sacred. It is meaningful. If we do not cross over today itself, when will we ever cross over? If we fill our heads to the brim with thoughts and then pray to God and ask Him to fill us with grace, how can He fill us?
Into a head that holds nothing, anything can be put; can a head already full of all sorts of things be filled? Unless the skull is empty, can merit be filled into it on this earth?
So first of all we must root out the needless thoughts, first of all. We must empty the head. Only then can merit be filled into it. People take pride in their form, thinking, ‘I am a man.’ But we must recognise that in form we are men, yet in conduct there is no humanness. Merely having the form, one cannot be called a man.
Do all green birds talk like parrots? Do the worms that crawl on flowers become bees? Does a donkey wrapped in a tiger's skin itself become a tiger? Does a pig grown fat as an elephant become an elephant, sir!
So we must not keep only the form in view. We must try to proclaim our human Dharma. We must show humanness. We must set our human qualities on what is right. So we must show the truth of humanness in our conduct. Having gained such a divine opportunity, we must not waste time. Using such an opportunity, along with the learning that belongs to the world, we must also contemplate … and make the right effort to gain the Ānanda that is within.
One who lives in the world must first become human; to learn the knowledge of the Ātma and find here the Ātma within: this is the path to rāja yoga, the word the smṛtis speak.
We are rāja yogīs. To be rāja yogīs means that while doing our duties, without thinking of their fruit, we must show by our example the welfare of the world and the progress of society. That was the very tapas King Janaka did.