In plain words
Merely repeating the Name, ‘Rāma, Rāma’, cannot bring Rāma’s grace. Merely repeating Kṛṣṇa’s Name, ‘Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa’, does not bring Kṛṣṇa’s grace. Merely repeating Bābā’s Name, ‘Bābā, Bābā’, does not bring Bābā’s grace. How far do you keep Bābā’s commands? How far are we putting Rāma’s ideals into practice? How far are we following Kṛṣṇa’s teachings, the Bhagavad Gītā? If you merely repeat the Name without practice, it becomes just a gramophone or a … . We must repeat that Name in the heart. With that heart we must do our deeds. If you put a chapātī in your … and keep thinking ‘Chapātī, chapātī’, your stomach will not be filled. It does not matter if you do not say ‘chapātī’ …; take it in your hand and put it in your mouth, and your stomach is filled. That is why putting it into action is … necessary. Without practice it will not come to us at all. Through the … of today’s Kali age we try to win it by repeating the Name alone.
The … who wrote the book called Tirukkuṟaḷ, which is spoken of in Tamil Nadu as the Tamil Veda, is Tiruvaḷḷur. Every day he kept to certain practices. He regarded that itself as his sādhana. To his wife he would say, ‘Morning and evening, before I eat, set water in a small glass beside me, with a needle, and go,’ so he would tell her. His wife did just that. In this way some years went by. She kept watching to see what he would do. But he never so much as touched them. One day, choosing her moment: ‘Tell me, every day you have me set the needle and water beside you, yet when I set them you never use them! What is the inner meaning of this?’ she … asked. ‘The whole world is the very form of God. We must not misuse anything. Food is Brahman, so we must not waste food. By food alone humanity comes into being and lives, and brain power grows. By food alone it comes to its end. So food is the root cause of creation, sustenance and dissolution. I asked for all these to be set out so that, if a single grain fell while I was eating, I would not pick it up with my eating hand but lift it with the needle, wash it in the cup of water beside me, and then eat it. But since I took care beforehand that not a single grain should fall, there was no need for them.
So what matters most in human life is human values. Among them, four are the chief. Ceiling on desires. Control over desires. (1) Do not let food go to waste: Don’t waste food.