In plain words
They may put on shawls. They may wear earrings; these are only outward show, and within him Ānanda is nil. That is why, whether we are writing books or reading books, we must believe the truth that God is One and worship Him. Doing one thing and showing it is far more needed than our saying a hundred. Practice is what matters, not preaching. It is through preaching itself that atheism is growing. Whatever books we have written, whatever things we have taught, we behave against them. This itself is betraying oneself. We must keep such things away from ourselves. We must look upon all as the children of one Lord. We must believe ourselves to be nothing but parts of That. We must make the parts that are within us grow. Only then shall we become Avatāras.
There is no difference between Avatāras and you. All of them have descended. The difference lies only in these kalās. These kalās we can develop through practice itself. We must develop equal vision. We must make pure Prema grow. Only then will it flourish. What wanes with every moment and waxes with every moment cannot be Prema. Prema is that which, free of death and birth, shines and blossoms unceasingly in the heart of the jīva. True Prema is that which neither swells nor sinks at hardships and losses, at blame and reproach, or at praises. But to sink and swell at some kind of gain and loss, to sink and swell at abuse and praise, to sink and swell at sorrow and joy: this cannot be Prema. Prema stays steady, neither stirring nor shifting. Such Prema alone is true Bhakti. Today, when a large income comes to us and our wishes are fulfilled, we put up more photos and worship with heaps of garlands. If our wishes fail, we take the photos down. Can this be true Prema?
The principle of God is present in all things. But to man the human form is what is nearest. We must honour this humanness that is so near to us. When we learn the way to honour it, that becomes true worship. It is all-important to adore the Divinity present in all human beings. This is the chief thing you must recognise today. Rāma and Kṛṣṇa, as they are called, did indeed take on human form. Every form we have worshipped from ancient times has been the human form itself. So to honour and worship the human form itself is the chief pūjā.