In plain words
In short, parā-bhakti can be called sāyujya itself. Sāyujya is merging itself. With no separateness, not imagining many in the One, to experience the One in the many: that is sāyujya. What attains such a principle is parā-bhakti. This principle of parā-bhakti does not come to everyone. Thinking it cannot be had, we need not give the least room to discouragement, to hopelessness or to despair. We must make the effort it needs. Life must not be wasted, however long, in feelings of difference such as “You are separate, I am separate”. As long as this sense of difference remains, doubt keeps arising. As long as these doubts remain, he cannot recognise the real Satya. Man today keeps teaching a great deal, but he forgets the Satya that what he teaches applies to himself. He does not ask himself how far he practises what he teaches others. This is merely a Bhakti of show. This show, this Ahaṅkāra, brings about a downfall. He drives even God far away. We must not give the least room to doubts that drive divine feelings far away. It is only one who keeps selfishness and self-interest in view who has these doubts in plenty. One who experiences and longs for the love of God and prapatti has no such differences at all. He shows his Bhakti and prapatti only in worldly dealings. But in the principle of the Ātma, which belongs to the Divine, his Bhakti and prapatti stand as their own witness.
Students! In this worldly life, how long do these dealings with the world last? What kind of Śānti and happiness do these dealings with the world give? Through them man gets unrest in many ways. The strength of riches, the strength of wealth, the strength of the body are of no use for winning Bhakti and Mukti. So too the strength of learning. The strength of God alone makes a man blessed. However many strengths there are in the world, all of them are weaknesses. In the world they think the strength of wealth alone is strength. It is not. The strength of God alone is the chief strength. Śaṅkara too said:
Mā kuru dhana-jana-yauvana-garvaṃ, harati nimeṣāt kālaḥ sarvaṃ.
Pride in wealth, in kin and in youth lasts only a moment, like a flash of lightning. Wealth is inert. Where is the strength in this inert thing? It is only through the nature of the mind in a man that strength or weakness comes to it. Wealth, learning or any other riches are all like pure water. When this water goes into a bottle of a certain colour, it takes on that colour.