In plain words
On so sacred a day we must foster the feelings that enter into God. We must turn our heart into the feeling of God. We must take the eight petals as filled with God's sixteen kalās. The Gopīs were the ones who in those days took such feelings in their inner meaning and entered the spiritual path. Whoever it was they served, they went on regarding it as the service of God. God is not in a temple. God is not in a mosque, God is not in a church: where is He? He dwells in the heart of man. There is no need to go to some other place to search for so all-pervading a God, who dwells in every heart. So the temple of God is your heart. But unfortunately today, God is in Tirupati, God is in Rāmeśvaram. God is in Badarī: saying He is here, He is there, they spend money on fares and go. If one says God dwells in your heart, nobody believes it. They do not believe Satya. They believe untruth.
Satya is God
Satya sets people against you; untruth pleases people: liquor sold out of the way is drunk, while curds and the like go from house to house.
Truly, nobody believes Satya. Untruth is a great attraction. It draws people. Even though liquor is sold outside the village, people leave the village, go there and drink. If someone brings milk and curds from house to house and says, “Mother, do you want milk, do you want curds?”, they say, “We don't want any, go away.” For what comes to the door and asks, no longing springs up. Today's students too are swayed in just the same way. They go scrambling after foreign learning. ‘Enna bhārate tanna bhārata,’ it was said. Learning not found in Bhārata is not seen in any other country. Bhārata is the very root of all learning. In such a land of Bhārata we can study learning of any kind. Above all, we must study the learning that makes life worthwhile. What use is it to learn any amount of learning that does not make life worthwhile?
However much learning one gains, what is the fruit? Who can undo what is written on one's own brow? If evil thoughts have made their home in one's head, all dries up, and the mind goes hollow as pith.