In plain words
We must give no room at all to agitation. These agitations are your own weaknesses. So you are proving your own weakness. Within us we must give no room to Ahaṅkāra, or to anger, or to any other bad feeling. So all this comes to us through saṃyama. So first of all we must understand well the nature of the mind. ‘Saṅkalpa vikalpātmakaṃ manaḥ,’ they said. ‘Mananātmakaṃ manaḥ,’ they said. So our thoughts give us agitation or elation. So first of all we must try to foster good thoughts within us. If we recognise in this way the truth that the divinity in all is one, there is no room for agitation. This very thing is evenness in Jñāna.
Next, evenness in Bhakti. God is only one. There may be many forms and names. ‘Ekaṃ sat viprābahudhā vadanti’: what is, is one, yet many people give it many names. ‘Ekameva advitīyaṃ’. One alone! There is only one; there are not two. Not two … one. With such a feeling we must try to attain the principle of God through Prema. The embodiment of Prema is one, only one. The Prema in Me, the Prema in you, the Prema in another, is one and the same. Its nature is one. Whether I hold sugar in My hand, or you in yours, or some servant in his, its sweetness is sweetness still. Just because the hands change, the sweetness does not change. We hold a campaka flower in our hand and smell it. Hold it in the right hand and smell it: its fragrance is fragrance. Hold it in our left hand: its fragrance is fragrance all the same. The flower does not withdraw its fragrance, thinking, ‘He has put me in his left hand.’ … fragrance is not only that. Not only does it give that fragrance to us; it gives that fragrance to those around us as well. Devotees meet with hardships, sorrows and troubles. Even in those sorrows we must give joy. Even as our body wastes away, we must give joy. This can be compared to … . How? Burning, burning away, it gives its fragrance to all as it burns. Nor is that all. Another is a stick of sandalwood. Take that stick of sandalwood, grind it and grind it; however much you torment it, it increases its fragrance. So look how man is turning out today. He is sinking lower than an ant, lower than a crow, lower than the quality that ought to be in humanness. You must have seen it. If a piece of something sweet, jaggery or sugar, is lying anywhere, an ant sees it. That ant does not sit selfishly eating it, saying, ‘Fine, I have got jaggery.’