In plain words
When this feeling arises in us, there is no room for hatred. Calling it Māyā, we only lay it at Māyā's door; but it is not Māyā. It is your own delusion. You cannot believe in your own principle. You cannot believe in yourself. What is the reason? Because self-confidence has been lost, this disbelief has gone on growing. Not only this. We go on increasing the bonds and relationships of the upādhi. ‘My mother, my father, my brother’: so we are bound up by attachment to the body. Because Kṛṣṇa had eaten mud, Yaśodā said, ‘Did you eat mud, my child? Open your mouth.’ He opened His mouth. Fourteen worlds appeared. The foolish woman did not believe it.
Is it a dream? Is it Viṣṇu's Māyā? Is it some fancy of my mind? Is it real? Have I lost my wits? Am I not Yaśodādēvī? Is this some other place? How big is this boy? That the whole universe should stand in His mouth and blaze there: what can be the cause? When I think on it, it is a great wonder.
She herself cannot believe it. Man today cannot believe in himself. How can a man who cannot believe in himself believe in others? First of all, self-confidence must come. It is karma that develops it. For every action there is a reaction. For every sound there is a resound. Reality has its reflection. That is the true divinity. That is Prajñāna.
What does upāsana mean? They have spoken of upāsana in many ways.
Śravaṇaṃ kīrtanaṃ viṣṇōsmaraṇaṃ pādasēvanaṃ arcanaṃ vandanaṃ dāsyaṃ sakhyaṃ ātmanivēdanaṃ.
Anything at all we may take up as upāsana. Most important of all, the root and ground, is friendship. God alone is the real friend, the helping friend. The mother loves to some extent out of selfishness and self-interest. The father loves to some extent out of selfishness and self-interest. But God has no selfishness at all. With Him there is only offering, always. The only true friend, free of all selfishness, is God. With such a Paramātma we must make friends. After friendship comes Ātma-nivēdana. Rāma and Sugrīva, once they became friends, brought their task to success. Without friendship Sugrīva would never have set himself to so great a work. That is why, when the work was done, Rāma said: ‘We are six brothers, not four.