In plain words
Churn and churn, and fire is born in the wood; churn and churn, and ghee is born in the curd; churn and churn, and the Tattva is born in the body: this is the plain fact I am telling you.
Embodiments of Prema!
When a tree's branches rub against one another time after time, fire springs from them. As you go on churning, butter begins to come from the curd. As you go on enquiring, divinity springs up within your own self. ‘By effort, tasks are accomplished in the world’: for anything at all, human effort is most necessary.
Jñāna is better than practice; dhyāna is higher than Jñāna; higher than dhyāna is giving up the fruit of action; from tyāga, Śānti follows at once.
Walking, talking, eating, writing, reading: all of these come to us only through practice. In the same way, when you want to attain divinity, for that too you must make the proper effort.
Whatever actions are performed for the welfare of society take shape as God's own work
If the food set on the plate is to reach the stomach, the hand and the mouth have to be put to work, have they not! Otherwise, you may say of the food on the plate a hundred times over, ‘a feast of five kinds of dishes’, ‘a feast of five kinds of dishes’, but our stomach is not filled. In the same way, merely uttering the Name, ‘Rāma, Kṛṣṇa, Govinda’, is not enough.