In plain words
If we follow Satya, worship Satya and put our faith in Satya, that very Satya will grant every blessing. So you must not take back your word in the least. We must keep the word given to Satyavān true to Satya. We can see how my fortunes turn out. I am following Satya. I am worshipping it. I will marry Satyavān and no one else. That very Satya will bring Satyavān back to life. So you must not take back your word,” she said firmly. As Nārada had said, Satyavān died after one year; and she, making Satya alone her worship, making it her pledge and taking it up as a sacred vow, brought his life back again. So we must use our words with the greatest care. Through that, the power of the mind, a change of heart and purity come to us in full measure. Whatever hardships befall us, whatever kinds of pain come to us, whatever kinds of blame and reproach we suffer, we must never let our word slip. We must not take it back. We must keep our own Satya. We must follow our own Satya. When we violate this very worship of Satya, it is as though we have violated Satya itself, which is the form of God. One who has gone against God, what else in creation can he achieve? With God alone are all victories.
Yatra yogeśvaraḥ kṛṣṇo yatra pārtho dhanurdharaḥ tatra śrīr vijayo bhūtir dhruvā nītir matir mama.
Only when we keep God in the heart, only when we stand in strong faith, can we win this victory. But today we have held the sensual desires of the world as dear as life itself. The mind has two kinds of resolve: pure resolve and impure resolve. Impure resolve means developing our resolves on the transient, impermanent things of the material world. Developing the qualities of God, which are eternal, Satya, divine, is pure resolve. It is through pure resolves alone that pure Jñāna too comes to us. This teaching of Jñāna is not something gained only through gurus. Nor is it gained by acquaintance with books. It is through our own sādhanas alone that we can develop its Jñāna. If we keep worshipping with firm faith, there is not a single thing in the world we cannot achieve.
A disciple went to a guru. “Swāmi! Give me some teaching of Jñāna,” he said.