In plain words
“Why should God do this?” they ask themselves. More than that, they see God and themselves as utterly different. For those who have recognised God's divinity, His infinite principle, there is no room at all for such doubts. Only the small-minded, who cannot recognise the infinite principle, think such thoughts. Their whole life ends in nothing but smallness. So you must rid yourselves of this smallness. Whatever God does free of self-interest, there is no fault in it. The question of why He should do all this does not arise. All these are nothing but moods of a kind within His līlā. In God there is no self-interest in any part at all.
The ideal student
In ancient times there was a great guru. Many disciples came to him and pursued their studies. All the disciples would extol the guru, saying, “You alone are our father, our everything.”
After some time, the disciples' studies were complete. They all took leave of the guru and set out for their own homes. As the disciples were leaving, the guru initiated each one of them into a name and told them to remember that name always. Once the disciples had gone to their homes, they thought less and less of the “Gurudeva”.
After some more time, the guru's last days drew near. He sent word to all his disciples to come. As soon as word came to come, all who were close by came at once, gathered round the guru and showed Anxiety such as you would find nowhere else. The elders around them kept watching all their fuss and fretting.
One disciple alone, living very far away, could not come at once and was very late. That disciple set out, burning to reach the Gurudeva as quickly as he could. On the way to the guru's village, a river was flowing in furious flood. He reached the bank of the river. All who were there were warning him not to step into the river; it was very dangerous. But this disciple paid no heed to any of it. Without the least delay, remembering the name his guru had given him, he plunged into the river. A wonder! The water of that river did not rise above his knees. He reached the far bank. All the people on the bank saw this wonder with their own eyes, believed he must be some great soul, a man of wondrous power, and followed after him. Somehow he slipped away from them all and reached the guru's āśrama. Seeing this disciple, all the other disciples were astonished. They could not understand how he had managed to cross a river in such flood.
The disciple held the guru's feet, bowed down, and stood humbly. The guru: “My son! How were you able to cross that river flowing so dangerously and reach me?” he asked. The disciple: “Svāmī! Nothing but your initiation carried me across the river and brought me safely into your presence,” he said. At once whispering began among the other disciples. “How partial our guru is! To one alone he gives a special, mighty power, and tells us to think on some ordinary mantra, and he himself just passes his time,” and so they began to speak ill of the guru.