In plain words
What is spoken is the Bhāgavatam, they say; the Lord who makes me speak it is Rāmabhadra, they say; what I speak will end the round of birth, they say; so I shall speak it: why speak any other tale?
so saying, he offered everything to God and began. Thinking of himself as a mere instrument, he offered his all to God and carried on his life.
Then Tyāgarāja: “God is everything! My Rāmacandra is everything!” So he felt; and feeling that without Rāma he was nothing and his life was in vain, thinking that Rāma had gone off somewhere, he searched for Him and lamented, ‘Nēnendu vedakudurā’. “Where am I to search for You? Without You I cannot stay for a single moment”: with feelings such as these he went wandering. When the King of Tanjore sent wealth, gold, goods and carriages, all of it, on palanquins to his house, Tyāgarāja: “Is wealth the greater joy, or is the presence of the Lord the greater joy? Tell me truly, O mind!” he asked himself. “Shame! Shame! Even the kings who gave all this wealth, gold, goods and carriages are not lasting. Will the riches they sent be lasting? I do not want them. Take them away,” he said. Because they made such sacrifice, these men have remained kings, ideals for the whole world.
Gōparāja, Tyāgarāja, Pōtarāja: what does ‘kings’ mean? The sense is that kings are those who have renounced all attachment. But in this Kali age people think that kings are those who are rolling in wealth, gold, goods and carriages. No, no. Only those who have renounced all attachment are the true kings. Whenever you go to Rishikesh or Haridwar, see: they call the sannyāsīs ‘Mahārāj’. Each one of them: “Mahārāj! Mahārāj! Mahārāj!” they call him. That means all sannyāsīs are great kings. So who is a Mahārāj? King of kings, great king of kings: it is such as these who are the true men of sacrifice.