In plain words
Everyone must be well. Such a feeling is the measure of God. That itself is the foundation. Ratnākara, who was a thief who lay in wait on the roads and robbed, kept up the thought of Rāma without a break through the teaching of the seven ṛṣis. As he kept thinking and thinking of Rāma, the radiance of Rāma entered his face. He himself became the chief giver of the Rāmāyaṇa. How fortunate it is that a highway robber should in this way become the giver of the Rāmāyaṇa, which has spread throughout the world. He did not study anything. He did not go to any university. In the world, the name Vālmīki has stayed with the Rāmāyaṇa. Whatever he did, he regarded it as God's work. Vyāsa wrote the eighteen Purāṇas, and he wrote the Mahābhārata as well. He taught the land. Because there was divine feeling in them, the names of the great ṛṣis Vyāsa and Vālmīki stand enshrined in the world today. Then there is Pōtana, who composed the Bhāgavatam. With what feeling did he begin the Bhāgavatam?
It is the Bhāgavatam, they say, that is spoken; the one who makes me speak it, they say, is Rāmabhadra; and if I speak it, they say, it ends the bondage of birth; so I shall speak it: why should I speak any other tale?
He began with the feeling of offering everything to Rāma: the one who speaks is Rāma, the one who makes him speak is Rāma, the one who writes is Rāma, the one who enjoys it is Rāma. When you say Bhāgavatam, Pōtana comes to mind. Pōtana has stayed in everyone's heart.
Along with life in the world, one must also take up the life of the spirit
What we must ask for today is not that learning should stay in books. It must stay within hearts. It must light the divine light in people's minds. It must make bright the minds sunk in the darkness of ignorance. No one can describe the darkness in the mind as this or that. Once, when Uddhava came to them bringing Kṛṣṇa's divine message, the Gopīs said to him: