In plain words
It is not a special path. A small example. When we try to contemplate God, Manas runs off in every direction. In other matters, though, Manas stays quite steady. We are reading some book. All our dhyāna is on that reading. It does not stray to any side. You are writing a letter; here there is dhyāna of the kind, ‘How does one letter stand beside the next?’ You are watching the road; there is a great deal of dhyāna. If you are to sit apart in dhyāna and think of God, Manas runs off. In all matters our Manas stays steady. But when it comes to the matter of God, it wavers, it shifts, it runs off. What is the reason for this? This is a fault of the desire that is in man. His saṅkalpa is not the right saṅkalpa.
The earnestness man has in worldly matters, that same earnestness he does not bring to God
In worldly things man has boundless desire, love and liking. That is why he shows a special concentration on them. On God he fixes Manas only to some small extent, so it makes no effort to stay there. The earnestness there is in these worldly matters, that same earnestness he does not bring to God. They divide, saying, ‘All these are mine; this one alone is God's.’ Through this very division, Manas too is divided. A small example. When a man learns to drive, he goes to a wide open ground and learns to drive there, because even if he turns this way and that, there is no fault and no danger. Once he has fully learnt to drive, he can drive even on narrow roads, even through lanes and byways. What is the reason for this experience? Because he learnt to drive earlier in a wide space, with that skill he is able to go very easily even on these narrow roads. In the same way, if one first practises with one's Manas in a broad way, that Manas will not lose its concentration in any matter, however small.