In plain words
All such prayers lead to some feelings of jealousy too. You gave those things to them; why should You not give them to me? You spoke with these people in this way; why do You not speak with me? In this way it takes shape as a mark of jealous feelings. More than this, only when we regard God as a seat of authority, as a boundless friend and as one close to us, are our wishes easily fulfilled. Whom do we praise lavishly? Newcomers: to make a friend of one, we praise him lavishly. Even when we invite him into our home, the words we offer him are only respectful ones like these: ‘Come in,’ ‘Please be welcome,’ ‘Do sit down.’ But when an old friend comes: ‘Come along, come! Sit down!’: such are the words we address him with. Tyāgarāja did many sādhanas and many crores of japa, and to see the eternal Satya-svarūpa he gained a kind of realisation too. By those very sādhanas he made Him his intimate. He never uttered even one word to do with respect and standing. When he asked Him to come to his house, in what way did he ask?
‘Come, come all the way to our house, O hero of the Raghus, O tender one; I bow to You; come, come all the way to our house. Come, come, O son of Daśaratha, take me as Your own; I cannot bear it. (Come, come…)’
Would anyone call God ‘Come along, come’! Tyāgarāja addressed Him that way just because he was a devotee.
On this Pūrṇāhuti day of the Navarātri festival, this is how we must recognise the true nature of those we ought to recognise. Reduce your desires. Do not set your hearts on petty desires. We must not enter on the path of hoping for some fruit or other, going into God's presence for its sake and wasting our time. Unfortunately, in this Kali Yuga, whatever holy place they go to and whatever pilgrimage they make, people nurse their own fruit from it and keep it in their minds; only so do they go on pilgrimages and visit holy places. If God Himself comes under our sway, where then is the result we cannot obtain? Where are the things we cannot obtain? ‘Rāma! If I have just the one strength of Your Grace, even all the planets come into my hands,’ said Tyāgarāja. Rather than praising God, it is most necessary to regard Him as one close to us, to think of Him as a friend, and to win His favour in many ways. For all this, the basis is Prema, supremely holy. In hardships, in sorrows, in troubles, we must see to it that we do not waver in this steady faith.