In plain words
The great working of human life is self-confidence itself. Only when full faith in this Name has come is it possible to attain the One the Name names.
Churn and churn, and fire is born of the wood; churn and churn, and ghee is born of the curd; churn and churn, and in the body the Tattva is born.
That is: only when two branches of a tree rub against each other is fire born in them. Only when we churn curd does butter appear before us. Only when we search through the body does a Tattva, the Name of God, arise in it for us. But today those who recognise such a Tattva of the Name of God are very few. For the sake of the pleasures and riches of this world, which are impermanent and passing, man is offering up his time, his body and his karma. After toiling in so many ways, he cannot say what result he gains.
From rising out of sleep until you sleep again, for the sake of your belly, spending your life with no limit and no account, pouring away all your learning, forgetting the lotus-eyed Lord, what great happiness have you won? Think it over gladly, O man!
Defiling time in this way, we ourselves do not know what happiness we gain. They cannot recognise what man's aim is, what his goal is. Having taken on so divine, so splendid, so ever-new a humanness, if we do not recognise its goal and forget its aim, what is the use of our having been born? Only when we remember the Name of God without a break does our heart soften, and prints of God's feet, pressing upon it, keep forming in it. It is precisely for want of such remembrance of the Name that the heart keeps hardening and the Buddhi turns sharp and pointed, and so life is laid waste. The man of today must turn his heart into one that is sweet, tender and soft. Except through contemplation of the Name alone, this is not to be had by any other path. We need not think over what kind of path, what kind of discipline, it takes to contemplate the Name. If we utter the Name of God with a feeling full of Prema, that alone brings every kind of Satya and purity. We need not yield in the least to the sway of place, time and circumstance. Thus: ‘Always, at every time, everywhere, the thought of Hari.’ God is all-pervading. He is all-knowing. No place without Him, and no thing that is not His, is to be found in this world. We must enquire into the chief reasons behind this Name of God.