In plain words
They are the guṇas sattva, rajas and tamas. Or a fruit! What is this fruit? The fruit of the mind. This fruit of the mind is a very sweet fruit. But because the mind follows the body, all its sweetness turns sour. It turns bitter. So the fruit means the fruit of the mind. Or a flower! Which flower? Not a flower that blooms in withering nature. Not the jasmine flower, nor the campaka flower. The flower of the heart. Or water! Not the water of the Gaṅgā, nor the water of the Gōdāvarī. The stream from the eyes, that water. To such as this God yields. We must offer up the body. We must offer up the mind. We must offer up the flower of the heart. We must wash it with tears of Ānanda. To such a devotee God yields. How true, how holy, how pure! Today it is not like that. Holding on to attachment to the body and forgetting attachment to the Ātma, man longs to have everything. God is not such a fool. ‘With what feeling are you doing it, what are you thinking, with what pure feeling are you feeling it?’: that is what He looks at. Do not cherish the hope, ‘I have done a Ph.D., I have done an M.Sc., I have done an MBA, I have done an MFM’! For God is the one who has read four papers more than you. Not one who has read less.
God yields to Prema alone
You cannot buy God with money. You cannot buy Him with anything else of any kind. Not with cleverness. He is to be had only through Prema, and Prema alone. By that alone can He be caught. So, first of all, we must make the heart pure. When you make your heart pure, then at the sight of those who suffer, that suffering begins in you too. That very suffering performs acts of help for all. There are crops in the villages. Many kinds of insects come and keep on spoiling these crops. We must apply the proper remedies for this. We must have them brought and sprinkle them.