In plain words
There Is No Place Where God Is Not
God says, ‘The call to open it; why the jīva stirs laughter.’ ‘When the whole universe is the temple of the Lord of life, where is a street door?’ When the whole universe is the temple, why a street door? If there were some separate place, you could put up a street door for it. There is no place where God is not. There is no room even for a fly to get through. Why a street door? Then the jīva speaks! ‘Plucking the strings of the vīṇā, rooting the strings of life, with tears of Ānanda making the offering of the self, see Kailāsa itself, O jīva! What street door is there!’ ‘The call to open the door that will not be shut.’ Between the two, the door and the call, lies this doubt. The one who would shut it is the jīva. The one who bids it open is God. What moves is the jīva; the one who stays still is God. The unmoving one is God; the moving one is the jīva. When a bird alights on a tender branch, the branch sways this way and that. But the little bird is not afraid. For it has not made the branch its support. It has made its own wings its support. Today even the faith a bird has in its own wings is going from man. If the least hardship, the least pain, the least grief comes, man is shaken. A timid man. We must not be such timid men. We must each be one whose heart holds the thought of God.
We Need the Strength of God and the Strength of Dharma
It is not strength of arm or strength of intellect that is needed. We need both the strength of God and the strength of Dharma.
Though one has strength of arm and good strength of intellect, without the strength of God one becomes wretched; Karṇa, great as he was, what became of him at the last? do not forget this good word.