In plain words
If Śānti and happiness are to sprout in this house, either the husband must follow the wife, or the wife must follow the husband. Look into it, and the husband is without fault and pure. For him, faultless, to follow a fickle wife who is full of faults: that is against Dharma. It is only natural for the fickle wife full of faults to follow the pure husband who is without fault. Who is the husband here? Who is the wife? The Ātma, without fault, pure, steady and selfless, is the husband. This wife, full of faults, fickle, selfish and full of anguish, is Manas. The process this Manas goes through in order to follow the Ātma is Bhakti.
This Bhakti has many names. The Bhāgavatam taught that Bhakti means service. Bhaja sevāyām. It said, “Hṛṣīkeśa-sevanaṃ bhaktir ucyate.” It said that serving God is Bhakti. That is, to keep our sight on the Ātma is Bhakti. To spend our life with our sight on the Ātma is Bhakti. To spend our life with our sight on the body is moha. So: lovers of Viṣṇu, devotees of Viṣṇu, lovers of the world, lovers of sense objects are men; and so it is those who thirst for Kṛṣṇa who are the Gopīs. It is those who thirst for the world who are jīvas. So this jīva, to experience himself as God, must develop the sight of the Ātma. The Gopīs are those who, with a ceaseless thirst for Kṛṣṇa, made their time worth while and sanctified their very birth.
But what kind of form does God have? In what way does He stand as the ideal fit to bless human beings? God means this: God is endowed with this sixfold wealth of qualities, lordship, Dharma, fame, prosperity, Jñāna and Vairāgya. He also has the name Viṣatkāra. Because He possesses the six kinds of wealth, He has the name Vibhu. He it is who is lord of all that is in this world, of what is to come and of what has happened. So, because He is the lord of past, future and present, He came to have the name Bhāvari. He is the One who stays merged with the times. Bhāvari means the One who creates the whole world. Because He gives light to the sun, the moon and the stars, He has the name Bhāvari. Because He is the root cause of all creation, sustenance and dissolution, they called Him Bhāvaka.
What is the proof that such a God is everywhere? For this we should note a fine, simple means. Where is God? When we inquire so, wherever water and air are, there God is. Water and air have come forth from the Ātma itself.