In plain words
This is a great mistake. They are deluded into thinking that we gain all kinds of results only by an individual's resolve, an individual's efforts, an individual's sādhanas. This is only the reflection of doership. This is only a distortion of Ahaṅkāra. I said yesterday: though there is no effort at all, the heart goes on beating. What effort are we making for the heart to beat? We are doing nothing. Whether we are in sorrow or in joy, travelling or sitting, walking, in whatever state we may be, our breathing in and out goes on happening. What effort are we making? The food we eat, whether we walk or do not walk, whether or not we carry out certain kinds of activity to digest it, goes on being digested. What effort are we making for this? I said yesterday: we cannot die when we want to die; we cannot be born when we want to be born. We cannot stay when we want to stay. This is not something that comes about merely through man's effort or through sādhanas. Though we do nothing, some things keep coming to us. They keep falling to our lot. They keep bearing fruit. So all these are the master plans of God. At what moment, at what time, what doership is to be experienced in what state: that we must leave to it alone.
Though one have strength of intellect and strength of arm, without the strength of God one becomes wretched; what became of so great a man as Karṇa in the end? Do not forget this good word.
Karṇa had strength of arm, strength of intellect, strength of weapons, every strength; yet because he lacked the strength of God, what became of him at the very last? The strength of God is true strength. The strength of Prakṛti is weakness. But to follow the intellect of body and mind, to rest only on these strengths that are fleeting and impermanent, and so try to attain the Ātma-principle, is mere madness.
When we wish Ātma-jñāna to be within our reach, we must develop the divine oneness. Today, because we have lost such oneness, division has grown and hatred is on the increase.