In plain words
Wondrous, and across the three worlds holy, sickles to the creeper of worldly life, true friends, to the forest of the sages the springtime, are the stories of Lord Viṣṇu.
Embodiments of Prema!
The pictures of sacred Prakṛti are wondrous. They are sacred. Prakṛti is what drowns. It is what lifts up. It is what blesses, what takes hold. To understand the principle of such a Prakṛti is very hard for man. Man is born into this world to win the grace of Prakṛti. But forgetting the truth that he was born for this … , not recognising it, he swells with the Ahaṅkāra that he alone is the lord of this Prakṛti, goes mad with it, and forgets his own divinity. Man cannot recognise the truth that what takes hold, what blesses, what restrains and what receives is all of it this Prakṛti.
The sway of Prakṛti over the empire of life is beyond all measure. But man, holding his divinity in check within this very humanness, forgets the sacred … . All things alike are equal before God. All the objects in the world are only the form of God. Prakṛti and Paramātma are not to be thought of as separate. These two are image and reflection. They rest on each other. They cannot exist apart. But we take the principle of Prakṛti in a form imagined by the eye, and think that man is merely something of the elements, made up only of things and vehicles. Prakṛti alone is man's chief teacher. Nature is the best teacher. Man today does not grasp such a truth. Every thing, every moment, every matter and every person gives commands of many kinds. It is Bhārata that recognised this supreme truth and lived by it. This itself is the chief mark of the culture of sacred Bhārata. From the stone to the gem, from the grass to the Supreme Light, from the … to the great soul, from the ant to the elephant, Bhārata believed everything to be the form of God. Bhārata believed every thing to be worthy of worship. That is why Bhārata consecrates even hard stones and worships them with the sixteen offerings. Bhārata … even trees such as the tulasī and the aśvattha.