In plain words
The qualities of lust, anger and the rest have simply broken loose and roam about freely. Consciousness in man has grown faint. The bond of kinship between man and man has taken on an artificial form. To tell the truth, humanness itself has come to nothing. At such a time, in such conditions, what must man achieve? If man is to experience Śānti, happiness and Ānanda, what must we gain? This is the most urgent question of today. What we must achieve today is love of God.
Many Purāṇas and many elders have taught that God incarnates to remove hardships, sorrows and troubles, to destroy the wicked and to protect the good. This is not right. This idea stood contrary to it. God incarnates only to teach Prema. It is only to impart Prema. It is to teach people what Prema is. So it is only when we gain such Prema that our sorrows leave us. Sins vanish, and fear does not come near us. That is why what we must learn is love of God. Where there is love of God, there fear of sin follows naturally, like a shadow. Through the union of these two a morality takes shape in society. To love these three is man's chief duty. That is: love of God, fear of sin, morality in society. To gain them, what is the sādhana fit for it? What is the path?
They have called it sādhana. What does sādhana mean? Bringing our goal close to us: that is sādhana. When we desire an object, if we want to bring that desired object close to us, we must undertake certain kinds of action. We must recognise the special worth of the object we love and build up our faith in it. Where Prema itself is missing, faith takes hold on nothing. Here the joining of Prema and faith takes shape as a kind of Bhakti. Through that we enter into action, so as to gain it. So Prema itself is Bhakti. Faith in its special worth is Jñāna. The actions done to experience these two are karma. So they have said that the combined form of Bhakti, Jñāna and karma is upāsana.
Today man keeps on building up dualism. Dualism will never take our sorrow away. It makes sorrow grow all the more. It takes us very far from Ānanda. So we here must make the effort needed to take up the oneness called Advaita. That oneness is a single thing. That very thing is Prema. The fruit of this Prema, the path to this Prema, the means to this Prema: each is Prema itself. The more we go on increasing our Prema, increasing it … , the more our Ānanda goes on growing and growing.