In plain words
From then on, Śabarī: Śrī Rāmacandra has gone into the forests, they say; Śrī Rāmacandra is wandering in the forests, they say. I too am living in the forest. 'Will He come by this path some day?' This alone was her thought. Long dhyāna. Long japa. Poor Śabarī was very short. As she went through some bushes, going to eat roots and tubers, if the bushes in any way touched her, she would think. Śrī Rāmacandra has arms that reach His knees, they say; so our guru described. If such a Śrī Rāmacandra, whose arms reach His knees, comes along this very path, these bushes may all brush against His head: so thinking, she would go along cutting away all those branches. Say, what service this is! When she was tired and sat on a rock she would think: when Śrī Rāmacandra wanders in this forest and, tired, sits on this very rock, how rough this rock is, so I must make it smooth; and she would sit, they say, rubbing it smooth with a stone. That itself was dhyāna. That itself was tapas. Afterwards she would bring jujube fruits to eat. Even then, the thought of that Lord alone. My Lord will come by this path and say, 'Mother! Who are you? I am hungry'; then, to give to my Lord, are there any sweet fruits among these? So thinking, she would test them well, test them again, and set aside the sweet fruits, they say. So all the karmas Śabarī did turned into tapas. Dhyāna, mere dhyāna, does not mean sitting with eyes closed, flanks heaving, as if sitting for a video photo; that is not dhyāna. This is not true dhyāna. Whatever work you do, it must be dhyāna on God. All that you eat, eat it as an offering to God. You need not give it up. All the water you drink, think, 'I am drinking it.' When in this way we think that all the work we do is done for God, we cannot do bad deeds at all.
So, students! I hope and I bless you that, keeping these sacred principles in your eyes, practising with your hands what you have heard with your ears, and taking shape as pure citizens, you will shine as those who will raise up the Bhārata to come; and with this I bring My long discourse to a close.