In plain words
That is a great qualification. God Himself is saying, ‘My son! You are My devotee.’ Win that state, and you will be equal to Arjuna. God is not saying, ‘You are My devotee’! If you really are devotees, why does God not call you so? So greatness is not our thinking that we are devotees of God. God must call us devotees. If you write a letter, put it in your own hand and say, ‘It has reached me,’ has it reached? Suppose you have written a registered letter to a friend. But how will you know that it has reached him? If an acknowledgement comes to you from that friend, the letter has reached. So when you send God the letter called your Bhakti, God must send the acknowledgement, ‘You are My devotee.’ Until that comes to you, you are no devotee at all. So that letter has not reached God. Then where did it go? Well, you may have written the address wrong. In our Purāṇas they give addresses in this way: ‘God dwells in Kailāsa, pervades Svarga, dwells in Vaikuṇṭha.’ All these addresses are only care-of addresses! The true address is ‘the dweller in the heart’.
The body has come to help others
You must strive until your conscience is satisfied. Your conscience is not satisfied with you. How can you say that God is satisfied? That is impossible. If it is to be possible, we must develop our purity. That is, we must give up, to some extent, bad qualities, bad ideas and evil thoughts. This body has come to help others. ‘Paropakārārtham idaṃ śarīraṃ.’ Then how is this help to others to be given? We must help others in keeping with Dharma. A small example. In the Mahābhārata, Dharmarāja, the embodiment of Satya and Dharma, is the Ātma. Draupadī, born of the fire, is Śakti. She is Prakṛti. Bhīma, the son of Vāyu, is the life-breath. Arjuna, the gift of Indra, is the principle of I. Nakula and Sahadeva are the organs of action and the organs of knowing. Now these organs of action and organs of knowing, the life-breath and the Manas, and Draupadī too, the form of Prakṛti, all followed Dharmarāja, the embodiment of Satya and Dharma.