In plain words
We make no effort at all toward the principle of the Ātma, which is eternal and true. The one who makes that effor… … is the true sādhaka. He alone is blessed. He alone is the blessed one, worthy and able to receive everything. You may enjoy the things that belong to the worl… … . There is no wrong in it. We must regard all of them as prasāda from God. ‘…rvakarma bhagavatprītyarthaṃ’: that is the true gem. So we must … use our life only for offering to God, and not spend it at all on anything else. What He has given must be … to Him alone. People go on doing many acts of charity.
In Uttar Pradesh there lived a noble woman. Out of whatever she had, she was always giving in charity. Whenever she went out among people, anywhere, she would go with her head bowe… … ; all her friends used to make fun of her. ‘What is this, mother? The gifts you give, the charity you do … no one else is doing; why must you go with your head bowed? You should go with your head held high,’ they would say. ‘My dears! When … gives to me with so many hands, for me to give with one hand is a disgrace … ,’ she would say. In this way, receiving from God's thousand hands as you do, what a shame it is to give with … hand! Many garments come to us to receive. To give, not even one garmen… … goes forward. That housewife taught that this is a disgraceful thing in society. … we must make sacrifice in everything. That is why, in the Veda, ‘Nakarmaṇā naprajayā dhanēna …naikē amṛtatvamānasuḥ’; in this very sacrifice lies our true yoga. With the body we must … do service. With the mind we must think good thoughts. With wealth we must make sacrifice. We must support the poor. We must have …hospitals built. Where they cannot reach, we must stand by as helpers. That is true life. This life is not, … … , to grow fat like a ball, thinking, ‘We have it, don't we?’ For this, we … . ‘Śarīramādyaṃ khalu dharmasādhanaṃ’: we must practise Dharma. We must make sacrifice.
Embodiments of Prema! We must fulfil our duty, doing our deeds all the time in service and in helping others. Whatever you do, d… … it with the feeling of God: there is no other sādhana greater than this. You need not do homa and tapas for selfish ends; even doing tapas for the sake of … is a sin. That becomes utter selfishness. We must not enter into … selfishness. We must enter into the good of others. You must do good to the many, your brothers. So, not becoming selfish, growing the feeling for the good of others, we must try to live with the feeling of the Para… …tma. If you think, ‘What is it to me how others fare? I … only the family must prosper’, beastliness seems better than this.