In plain words
Each one must decide that for himself. If we do it with all our heart, God gives us Ānanda without measure.
Patraṃ, puṣpaṃ, phalaṃ, toyaṃ
Moved by an artificial feeling, Satyabhāmā tried to make Kṛṣṇa her own with the wealth she had. God is not balanced by wealth, not balanced by position, not balanced by learning, not balanced by power of intellect; He is balanced by Bhakti alone. That is why Rukmiṇī came: “If it is true that You yield to one who has Bhakti, be it a leaf, a flower, a fruit or water, O Kṛṣṇa! May You be balanced by this tulasī leaf!” she prayed, and as she laid the tulasī leaf down, Kṛṣṇa was balanced. Here the leaf does not mean a bilva leaf or a māreḍu leaf; the body itself is the leaf. The flower does not mean a jasmine flower or a jāji flower; the mind itself is the flower. The heart itself is the fruit. Tears of joy themselves are the water. With tears of joy we must offer ourselves to God. Things such as these are what God is asking for. But you forget these and pass your lives a prey to outward delusions.
Your heart is My temple
You build huge mansions to live in. In them you make your bedroom, your drawing room, your dining room and all the rest very large, but for God you set aside just one small room in some corner. Mad people! Is this My temple? No, no. Your heart itself is My temple. Mīrā said: “Kṛṣṇa! Hamārā dil tumhārā mandir”. “My heart is Your temple, Kṛṣṇa,” she said. So you too must regard your heart itself as the temple of God. Your whole house is God's; you may put it to different uses, but God is everywhere. How foolish to allot to such a God one small room in some corner! “Sahasraśīrṣā puruṣaḥ sahasrākṣaḥ sahasrapāt.” There is no place where God is not. All forms are His own, all names are His own. Unable to believe in so vast a divinity, you put some small photo in the pūjā room and think that it is God. Such faith is not right. In the Rāmāyaṇa, Lakṣmaṇa said, “Rāma! This body has come for Your service, so I offer it to You alone.” And Bharata, “Rāma! I am in You alone. I am a part of You. You and I are not different,” he said. Through this very feeling of oneness, in time Rāma's splendour arose in Bharata. Lakṣmaṇa's was saguṇa upāsana; Bharata's, nirguṇa upāsana. Every man must begin first with outward worship and then, step by step, experience divinity in his inner feeling.
Unless the senses are restrained, the mind is not mastered
What were we given eyes for? Purandaradāsa said: “What use are eyes? What use are eyes that do not see the Lord?” If we have eyes that do not see God, what use are they? Sūradās too said the same thing: “Lord, I do not grieve that I have no eyes. But do all those who have eyes manage to see Your form?”
Having eyes, they turned blind, and Your auspicious form they could not behold; having ears, they turned deaf, and Your most enchanting song they could not hear.
To hear the gossip of the village, both ears prick up and listen. But when it comes to hearing about God, one ear goes one way and the other ear another way.