In plain words
He is unable to know in what way this power of intellect should be used. Even knowing, man turns it onto the wrong path. Asked the cause of this kind of path, he gives "Māyā" as the answer.
"Māyā" is Māyā only in name; there is no form called Māyā. People imagine that it is Māyā that makes the whole world dance, cherishes it, rules it, charms it and makes it forget itself. This is what the pandits have been calling Māyā the dancer. Māyā makes every man dance. How, then, are we to bring this dancer under control? Na-rta-ki. By kīrtana the nartakī comes under control. This is what has been taught as the path of Bhakti. A man fully sunk in water does not speak a word. Only the one who floats on the surface can talk. In the same way, how can one who is sunk in Prema, experiencing the principle of Prema, describe the form of Prema? But only one who floats on the surface of Prema, saying "Prema, Prema", describes it in many ways. The condition of man today is just like this. Without seeing Prema in the least, without experiencing Prema in the least, to preach the principle of Prema is laughable. What sādhana should we do for the principle of Prema? What, in fact, is sādhana? Sādhana is nothing but forgetting the Anātma and contemplating the Ātma. Nothing but forgetting the transient and remembering the eternal. Nothing but forgetting avidyā and coming to know vidyā. Sādhana does not mean, in particular, doing japa, tapas, yajñas, yāgas and the like.
Many women carry out their own duties, do the work of their own homes themselves, and look after their husbands and children. "Alas, I could not join the satsaṅg!" they grieve. "I could not go to the discourses!" they lament. Merely by joining a satsaṅg, merely by sitting in a gathering, what good have they done? To look after the children at home, keep the house clean, make the husband happy in the right way and lead a healthy life in the family: that is true sādhana. Cooking rice for the children and the husband in the evening and at daybreak, serving them, sending them off to the office or to school, then attending to her own daily tasks herself: this too is a sādhana. First of all, while they cook the rice, they are practising a great sādhana. They pick the stones out of the rice and cook it.