In plain words
A person must have the strength and ability to understand that yoga. People today practise all this strength and ability merely as a kind of pomp, as a show. We must not bring in ingenuity with ostentation. Ingenuity must be brought in as the time and the occasion call for it. It must be brought in only with regard to the place, the time and the circumstances. Otherwise this ingenuity becomes laughable.
Once Guru Nānak went to Hṛṣīkeś. From there everyone was going to Badarī, and he went too. There is one weakness in us, the people of Bhārata. The belief is that if piṇḍas are offered at Badarī for one's parents or elders, they will have no more birth. All the paṇḍās there eat people alive. They themselves are great carcasses. They harass everyone who goes there, ‘Money, money!’ The paṇḍās sit on a rock and have everyone offer piṇḍas. That the piṇḍa offered here reaches all those who are in heaven or in hell: such is their pestering. While they were offering piṇḍas right beside the river, this Guru Nānak went into the water there. He turned to face the east. He kept splashing water about. All these paṇḍās watched. What is this madman doing? He is throwing all the water in the river onto the bank! So all of them laughed. They looked on it as a joke. The more they laughed, the faster he splashed the water. He splashed it on them too. All those paṇḍās came up in anger: ‘Madman! Where are you splashing the water?’ they said. ‘In our Punjab, in a village called Moga, there is a mango grove. I am watering that mango grove,’ he said. ‘Madman! You are here in Badarī. The water of the Alakanandā is here. How can water reach a grove over there in Moga, in the Punjab?’ they said. ‘If the piṇḍas offered here reach parents who are somewhere in some other world, why should the water I splash here not reach Moga?’ he said. These are devices of ingenuity that stir their minds.
Rāmakṛṣṇa did the same. That is, Tenāli Rāmakṛṣṇa, not Rāmakṛṣṇa Paramahaṃsa. Rāmakṛṣṇa Paramahaṃsa was an innocent, bless him. He had nothing but pure Prema. ‘Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa! How will this Kṛṣṇa come within my reach? How will He be caught?’ Apart from this he knew no tricks at all, bless him. The learned know all about these devices and tricks. He had no learning at all. Once he said to the learned Vivekānanda, ‘I must go home. Today is the day I collect my pencil,’ he said. ‘What? What is this day for collecting your pencil?’ said Vivekānanda. ‘They say that for the work I did, they give a little after I retire,’ he said.