In plain words
Lineages and castes do not matter to us. Feelings matter greatly. Everything merges in feeling itself. So we must all give up the feeling of Prakṛti and take up the feeling of the Paramātma. This is the very Advaita Jñāna that abides in oneness. If we keep them as two feelings, ‘Prakṛti on one side, the Paramātma on the other’, then: A man with a dual mind is half blind; because there are two feelings, men fall into darkness. There must not be two feelings; there must be one feeling only! ‘Viśvaṃ viṣṇumayaṃ’: all is filled with Brahman. In this world there is not a single thing that is not Brahman! But through our differences of upādhi, through the delusions of the upādhi, through possessiveness and Ahaṅkāra, we fall prey to blame, praise and contempt. None of these touches God. He is beyond them all. If one reviles loudly, it goes off into the air. If one reviles softly, it strikes oneself. Why then should we be afraid? Why should we get agitated? Why should we fall prey to blame, praise and contempt? Only the one who has eaten gets the belch. Whatever one eats, the belch is of that very thing. ‘Yadbhāvaṃ tadbhavati.’ Because there is no one to recognise such a Satya or to teach it, good devotees cannot understand the Satya. They founder in outward meanings alone. They are sunk in outward observances alone.
God wants only purity of heart
God does not want outward observances at all! You do pūjās for your own satisfaction. God wants only purity of heart. That is why Tiruttāṇḍāḷvār said, ‘Cittaśuddhivōḍu vunnavai pūjasēdanē śīghrama onduriva rāma rāma.’ ‘I am worshipping with purity of citta,’ he said. We must worship God with such purity of citta. Without purity of citta, however many pūjās one does and however many kinds of good deeds one undertakes, there is no use. We give in charity. We perform yajñas, yāgas and other rites. We practise japa, dhyāna and the like. But our bad qualities do not go!