In plain words
A car going here, a car going there, a man going here, a man going there: it is all business! Every person is scrambling for money; he lives for money alone. For money, man is turning into a demon. Well then, does he at least put the money he has earned to good use? Not at all. “In the end, will they hand it to thieves? Or will it go to the lords?!”
Embodiments of Prema! Desire wealth, earn it; that is no fault. But offer back to society itself the wealth you have earned from society. Every person must have both wealth and power; that is no fault. But each must enjoy them along the proper path. In whatever position people stand, they must earn the honour that befits that position. Even the one who stitches sandals has as much authority in his own work as the Prime Minister has in his. So each must do his own duty properly, and that is enough. We must not compare ourselves, saying, ‘I am a small one, he is a big one.’ Your work is great to you, his work is great to him. “I must do my own work. I must see that there is no fault of any kind in my work”: when every person gives his care to his work with this feeling, ‘Lokāssamastā ssukhinobhavantu’ becomes fulfilled. Man today prays ‘Lokāssamastā ssukhinobhavantu’, but pays no heed to the world itself. For him there is only his own world!
God dwells in the heart
Our speech itself is Brahmā, the mind itself Viṣṇu, the heart itself Īśvara. These Trimūrti dwell within us ourselves. Only when we build up this faith does our vision grow, turned within. We go round temples wanting to see God, and we make many pilgrimages. But what is the use? The scientist of today is in just the same state. He travels lakhs of miles through space, but does he go even half an inch into the depths of the heart? The devotee of today too goes on pilgrimages and goes round monasteries. When God is in your very heart, why go round monasteries? Look into your own heart; inquire well into the feelings that arise in your heart. Only then will you enter the right path. Look into the heart and there is filth; look outside and there is the name of Mādhava: this is not true Bhakti. First of all we must make the heart pure through contemplation of God.
Whatever work we do, we must regard it as God's own work. Clean your house: that too is God's work. “Deho devālaya prokto jīvo devassanātanaḥ”: the body is the temple, the jīva itself is God. Why roam this way and that, saying God is in Tirupati, in Badarīnāth, in Amarnāth! He who cannot see the God who is in his own heart may go round any number of temples; it comes to no more than wasting time!