In plain words
We must recognise the truth that this life-span truly came about to recognise this principle of the Ātma, and act on it. We can drink up even the sea with ease. We can uproot even Mount Meru. We can even eat fire as our food. But Vasiṣṭha said that to know the nature of the Manas is very hard.
In My view, to control this Manas is very easy. Whatever sādhanas we do with śraddhā, all of them are easy for us. By effort, tasks are accomplished in the world. For the lazy who make no effort, everything is hard. Truly, to restrain this Manas, to make the Manas pure, to bring it to the state beyond the Manas: this is supremely easy. It is not that there are no ways for it. That is the path of Bhakti. There is nothing in this world that cannot be achieved by Bhakti. For one who has Bhakti, any power whatever can be won. There is nothing else in this world greater than this.
Though he be a master who has gathered the gist of all the śāstras and Purāṇas, a sage learned in what Vedānta makes known; though, his delight overflowing, in lovely mansions he take his pleasure, a moon among kings; though, his enemies routed on the field of battle, he shine as the one hero of the world; though, pining under the favour of the goddess of poverty, he be a servant, a lord of misfortune: without Bhakti he is of no use at all. Rather than that lord of the world who has no Bhakti, it is the servant devoted to the devotees who is worthy of homage. What more than this can I make known, O assembly of the good, counted among the virtuous?
What is Bhakti? To set up some picture, to set up an idol, put a few flowers on it and bow down, to wave the lamps: is this Bhakti? In the Bhakti of today, people do not even make the bow with śraddhā. In a hurry to get something somewhere, they say 'Namaskāram' and bow to God in a single moment. Man today has not earned the fitness to bow down once, with Śānti, with Prema, wholeheartedly, joining all ten senses, with a holy feeling.