In plain words
Only then will this tree of Prema grow. Only then will all the fruits of Prema come to us. But man today does not do the sacred, meritorious deeds that pour out Prema.
“Men want the fruit of merit, but they do not want to do meritorious deeds; they do not want the fruit of sin, yet they sin with great effort.”
This is the fault of today. Every man craves the fruit of merit: ‘I want it, I want it.’ But he does not step forward to do meritorious deeds. ‘No fruit of sin, no, no,’ he says. But they commit sins. Why should one who says no to it do it? One who does not want the fruit of sin must not sin. One who wants the fruit of merit must do meritorious deeds. If we do not do them, this fruit of merit will not come to us. In just the same way, when you wish God's Prema to shine on you, you must do meritorious deeds so that the principle of Prema grows within you every day. If you do not put it into daily practice, how will Prema grow?
The oneness of thought, word and deed is the chief sādhana for the vision of God
The word ‘mānava’ means one who has faith. One who has trust. Because we do not put into practice what we believe, our trust is wasting away. Our mind runs only on outward mantras, yantras and forms. A small example. Once Vikramāditya, in disguise, was travelling through the land. In one place an old brāhmin was performing a yajña. Who knows how long he had been at it: beside him the ash of the yajña lay piled up in heaps. When Vikramāditya saw it: “Swami! What is this work you are doing?” he said. “For sixty years I have been performing this yajña, my son! These heaps of ash are from this very yajña,” he said. ‘For sixty years I have performed this yajña without leaving it for a moment. Yet I have not been blessed with the grace of the Yajñapuruṣa, and I cannot attain the vision of His form,’ he grieved.