In plain words
Spirituality and Bhakti
Humanness is not merely turning the mind towards God. God must take birth in man. The endless arts in which the power of Īśvara shows itself are humanness. Man is the form of a few rays within that endless expression. Not recognising this divine humanness, we make our holy lives worthless for the sake of worldly, physical, petty desires. What is spirituality? It is the unstoppable daring of Caitanya. To show forth in its purity this divine Caitanya that comes out of man from without and from within: that is spirituality. Spirituality is to drive away the animal nature that is left in man and to make Divinity grow. To root out the difference between God and Prakṛti and to make them one: that is spirituality. Bhakti is needed to reach this divine and noble state.
What is Bhakti? Īśvara must take birth in the mind of man. The practices one does to fix one's mind steadily on God are the forms of Bhakti. To remember God in order to fulfil worldly desires and to enjoy the things of the senses is not Bhakti. To bring forth the Saccidānanda that is whole within oneself, and to experience it, is Bhakti.
“If you ask for God, He is not in some other land; if you ask for God, He is in your own body.”
Because from ancient times man has taken the outer meaning as his support and lived holding worldly customs to be what matters, he has forgotten the eternal, true principle of Caitanya. A man bound by the guṇas forgets God. A man bound to the spirit forgets Prakṛti. To turn a mind bound by the guṇas into a mind bound to Īśvara is spirituality. We must firmly believe the truth that this Divinity is what matters for the world. Another name for goodness is God. To trust in one's goodness and in the holy qualities within oneself, to practise them and to rejoice in them: that is the working of this power of Caitanya. So, of a hundred people, a hundred cannot make out the true meaning of spirituality, of Bhakti and surrender. When a man's whole life is sunk in outer, worldly things of the senses, how can a divine feeling be seen by him? Yet, step by step, sādhana is essential for this, at least in some measure. Only when in every particle of this world and in every moment of life we constantly bring forth the radiant form does humanness become worthwhile.