In plain words
If we wish to attain the divine form called Ānanda, we must enter these eight petals. God is the embodiment of Śānti, God is the embodiment of sacrifice, God is the embodiment of compassion, God is the embodiment of beauty: His very form is beauty. Through beauty itself comes Ānanda; sacrifice is the chief root. So in the Veda it was said: ‘Not by action, not by offspring, not by wealth; by sacrifice alone have some attained immortality.’ You may well enquire what hardships the cakora birds of old went through for such Ānanda. For the pure water of the Svāti rain these cakora birds took on many kinds of vows. There is no shortage of water in the world. Wherever you look there are tanks. It all looks full of water. The sea too is nothing but water; those birds did not long for salt water, those birds did not long for this muddied water. That cātaka longs for clean, pure water. They drank only the water that falls from the sky, and were content. Keeping in view God alone, whose form is the blue cloud, the moment they saw a blue cloud they would fly into it as God. Whenever clouds came in blue, they took them to be Kṛṣṇa. With the vision of Satya they lived with their aim fixed on God alone. Whatever a man sees, whatever he does, whatever he experiences, whatever he hears, he must feel that in all of it he is experiencing God. The studies you study, the games you play, the songs you sing, the things you listen to: all of it you must take as the words of God. That is why it was said, “Life is a game, play it.” In every living being the principle of Prema dwells, divine. By this Prema one can experience divinity in any measure. A life without Prema is like a desert. Only a life filled with Prema is true life. By this Prema we can attain Satya.
Satya, Dharma, Śānti and Prema are the goal of the people of Bhārata.
Satyam ekapadaṃ svargaṃ: by Satya itself they attained heaven. We must attain Satya through Prema. Through the form in which Satya and Prema are blended, we must follow Dharma. Dharma must be set on the path of giving. Taking this as his base, the Buddha said, ‘Dharmaṃ śaraṇaṃ gaccāmi, Buddhaṃ śaraṇaṃ gaccāmi, Saṅghaṃ śaraṇaṃ gaccāmi.’