In plain words
When one grain of paddy is sown in the ground, 160 grains of paddy are born. When we put one seed in the ground, it becomes a great tree and bears hundreds of fruits. In the same way, whatever thing, however small, is offered without selfishness, that very thing takes shape as the endless. God's are the forms of restraint and of grace. What practises Ahaṅkāra and show, with desire and greed, is humanness. So today even Bhakti is taking shape as a field of trade. "God! I will break so many coconuts for You; fulfil my wish," he says. "O God! If I win ten lakhs in the lottery, I will give You ten thousand," he says. Is God short of these ten thousand rupees, that this fellow should give them? In this itself his Ajñāna shows. If God gives me ten lakhs of rupees, I shall give ten thousand. Who is the one who gives? By such trade man is being bound. To God: You alone I want; apart from You I need no one else. If You alone are there, the whole world will come under my sway. There is nothing for us to give God.
For Him who fills and swells through the whole cosmic egg, can a temple ever be built to hold Him? For Him whose radiance passes that of a crore of suns, who can hold out a small clay lamp? For Him who moves within all beings, is it possible to give a fitting name? For Him who moves through all the waters, is it possible to give a bath? Beyond the reach even of Brahmā, Hari, Hara and the rest, such is His form: who has the power to find it?
So no one need give anything. What must be given is one thing alone: Prema. And that Prema too is not yours. It is a thing received as God's gift of grace. If one turns so selfish over offering to Him what is His own, that is a flaw in a noble personality. So we must recognise certain fine things in the principle of Vāmana and in the qualities of Emperor Bali. When this Śukrācārya spoke, he answered, "Master! Be it Hara, be it Hari or be it man, I will not break this word. My life is given up to it. Now I must give it to Him," he said. So in the matter of offering to God you must never hold back in the least. That way you only become one who has offered to yourself; it is no offering to God. Saying so, he went on making known this truth too: