In plain words
Without a change of heart, without the mind opening out, without the feeling of divinity, what is the use of living as a man? This is a most unfitting state of things. We must set about sacrifice.
Unless the mind is transformed, however many outward rites we perform, there is no use
However long one lives, one cannot escape leaving the body. The days that have passed come round again. We live again the experiences already lived. We do the very things we have done before. But divine feelings do not arise in us at all. How many people read the Gītā? How many people do dhyāna and japa? But what comes of all this? What is its fruit? No one sees it at all. Does the heart become pure merely by turning a japa-mālā in the hand? First of all we must change the mind.
Merely by wearing the ochre robe Bhakti does not come as easily as a gooseberry in the palm; however much a mantra is chanted with the mouth, the sin that was done does not scatter away; by taking up the Gītā and shouting it aloud merit does not pile up in our house. He in whom the words he speaks and the deeds he does are one is the true sādhu. When ego and slander of others, that foul rot, are cut away, and the feeling that in all living beings the Lord of all is one is held fast in the mind, on that very day the company of sādhus will flourish.
That oneness must come to us. Unless our mind is transformed, however many outward rites we perform, there is no use.