In plain words
A small example. Ananyaś cintayanto mām…. This is the chief … of the Bhagavad Gītā, and the last of it, 'Yogakṣemaṃ vahāmyaham': 'I will look after your welfare,' He said. … people take only these two words. They take only this: 'Swami has promised me, hasn't He, that He will look after my …; He said He will not let go of my hand, didn't He?' … I gave that promise. 'I will not leave you; I will look after your welfare': that … you take, but are you doing 'ananyāś cintayanto mām'? The welfare alone you want. … are you walking by Swami's command? Are you putting Swami's ideals into practice? Then are you doing the … contemplation? For the one who has done all these, He said, 'Yogakṣemaṃ vahāmyaham.' If you say, 'For me, more than that, …; I want my welfare,' God is not such a fool. He Himself looks after the welfare of the one … who has done what Swami said. If you want only what Swami has said … without doing what He said, this is downright selfishness, rākṣasa nature. For one sunk in so much selfishness, there can no longer be any … growth. There is a padyam in Telugu.
A kinsman who is of no help in need, a god bowed to for a boon, and in the battle a horse that will not run when one has mounted it: these must be let go at once, O Sumati.
… what the selfish take from it is this. A kinsman of no help in need: letting go, saying, 'I do not want … who do not help me in my troubles.' A god bowed to for a boon. The god who does not grant … to me even though I bow down, I must leave. I have no … for a horse that does not run when I mount it. They say, 'This is how it is, so I am casting it aside.' To whom did he say this? Gadarā …tī. He said it to Sumati. He said it to one of good intellect. Sumati. Leaving aside the important principle … in these three letters, they take only these three lines. Will one with good … mount a horse without knowing how to ride? He will not. He is of bad intellect …; will one with good qualities ask God for just anything at all? He asks only for the good. Because he asks for …, He blesses the good. A kinsman of no help in need. If you do what should not be done, … do wrong things, and say, 'My kinsmen have given me no help at all,' … will kinsmen help? If you do good things and get caught in danger, … will surely come and help.