In plain words
At that very moment Bābā: ‘This Śyām must not leave Me. I too must not leave Śyām,’ and so Bābā named the horse that stood nearby ‘Śyāmā’. For Bābā used to call ‘Śyām, Śyām’ day and night. ‘How am I to call Śyām, who is not before Me?’ He thought, and Bābā decided, ‘I will give that name to another and call that.’ That is how Bābā's horse came by the name ‘Śyāmā’.
If the vessel called the mind has no tin lining called Prema, everything is spoiled!
Bābā never taught the pañcākṣarī mantra ‘Om Namaḥ Śivāya’, or ‘Om Namo Bhagavate Vāsudevāya’, or ‘Om Namo Nārāyaṇāya’. ‘Always be good. Live a good life. Earn a good name,’ he taught. That alone is the true Bhakti a man must have. Without that good name, what use is doing any number of japas? What use is doing dhyāna? You do all these through the mind. So keep the mind good! Keep the mind good and fill that mind with the principle of Prema!
They brought good vegetables. They brought good tamarind too. They brought salt too. There is a good vessel. And the cook, look, is one who cooks as Nala and Bhīma cooked. Using all these, he cooked sāmbār. By the time the sāmbār was cooked, verdigris had set in. From what? Was the fault in the vegetables? Was the fault in the cooking? Was the fault in the ingredients used? No, no. The vessel had no tin lining. Because he cooked the sour stew in that vessel without tin lining, it all turned to poison. So, though these nine kinds of Bhakti, śravaṇaṃ, kīrtanaṃ, viṣṇusmaraṇaṃ, arcanaṃ, vandanaṃ, pādasevanaṃ, dāsyaṃ, snehaṃ, ātmanivedanaṃ, are great, if the vessel called the mind has no tin lining called Prema, everything is spoiled! So you must foster the principle of Prema in the heart!