In plain words
Offer All Worries to God and Attain Śaraṇāgati
Each worry is like a naya paisa. For no worries are permanent. Now one worry comes, and in a moment it moves off and another worry comes rushing in. So it has no worth whatever. What is the shape of worry? It is mentally created fear only. The mind itself is unsteady. How long can worries made of its imagining last? Find out, my dear! Give all that small change to Me. For one rupee, a hundred naya paise. For a hundred rupees, 10,000 naya paise. If you tie these 10,000 naya paise in a bundle, it is a great weight. How can you carry it? It is beyond you. Give those 10,000 naya paise to Me. Here! I am giving you a hundred-rupee note. It is light. Keep it safe! There is no weight to it. It is safe as well. ‘It is hard for you to keep this bundle. Carrying it is harder still. There is no safety in it at all. So give them to Me. Take refuge in Me.’ God has kept on teaching in this subtle way. The God who is in all is One alone! But: ‘What are we to do about our duties? We have our duties, have we not! There are dhaneṣaṇa, dāreṣaṇa, putreṣaṇa and ever so many more eṣaṇās,’ you may ask. You need not give these up. Carry out your own duty! How? You are playing a father in a drama. You have a son, and that son has fallen ill. You are grieving. But if you look at it truly, you are not the father, and you have no son. Nor is he ill. You are not weeping. All this is acting in a drama; even while you weep you are thinking, ‘I am such-and-such a boy, I study in such-and-such a class; he is not my son, he is a boy of such-and-such a class.’ Do your acting correctly on the stage. However much you act, you do not forget your own name. Nāgayya took the part of Tyāgayya. He sings ‘Nēnendu pōdurā’. He sings like Tyāgayya. But he is Nāgayya, not Tyāgayya. To all the audience he is Tyāgayya and nothing else! If you go behind the stage, they say, ‘Well, Nāgayya! You acted very well.’ In truth he is Nāgayya on the stage, and Nāgayya behind the stage! The one who sings is Nāgayya, the one who acts is Nāgayya! But the name is different. In the same way each person is acting a part of his own.