Passage 1

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In plain words

When purity of feeling arises, that itself becomes Bhakti; doing meritorious deeds, that itself becomes worship; giving help to others, that itself becomes tapas: do not forget this good word. The one who sifts his own faults is the truly wise; the one who goes hunting out all the faults of others cannot know himself and does not know his own fault; a fool on earth is better than such a one.

Embodiments of Prema!

This human body is the unfailing boon God has given; only when we enjoy it along the right path does life become fruitful. The body is bound to karma. This body was given for the doing of karma. This body is the instrument given for the practice of Dharma, for the sādhana of Dharma. To lead such a body onto a crooked path, fill it with injustice, wrongdoing and evil ways, defile it and make it foul: that is a path contrary to humanness.

There are three ways of enjoying the human body. To imagine that He granted this body for enjoying worldly pleasures and riches in this world of Prakṛti, to set it on the wrong road and take it into deeds that should not be done and places where one should not go, and so to make it impure: this is humanness of the lowest kind. To regard one's body rightly for the sake of duty and look after it, to see in the proper way to the works and acts of saṃskāra, to carry out one's duty and so make the body holy: this is the second way. Not only to carry out one's own duties, but now and then to enter into works of help to others and to dwell in thoughts of God, and in this way to make this body fruitful: this is the third way. Not to rest in duty alone, but, to make the body fruitful, to take part in service day and night and to put one's body to good use in the contemplation of God: this is the fourth way. These very ways they brought to the ranks called the lowest, the middling, the best and the best of the best.