In plain words
None of these gives lasting Ānanda. It was there before you were born. It is there in your birth. It is there after death. It holds good in all three times: Omni present truth. That is the principle of the Ātma, the principle of God. God was there even before you were born. He is within you too. He will be there after you. So they called God omni present. We must try to recognise such unchanging Satya. Sakkubāī, who recognised such Satya, went through many kinds of suffering, and at the very last Kṛṣṇa Himself changed His form, took on Sakkubāī’s form Himself, and sent Sakkubāī to Paṇḍharpur. You see! How great is the principle of God’s Prema. How simple. Taking the devotee’s form and doing many tasks in the devotee’s home, He sent the devotee to His own abode. He sees to it that no ill fame comes to the devotee. He makes sure that no one can point a finger, saying, ‘Did one who is called a devotee do such a thing?’ If He sent Sakkubāī to Paṇḍharpur, people might say, ‘He has sent Sakkubāī, a woman keeping a household, off to Paṇḍharpur!’ But Kṛṣṇa Himself, in the guise of Sakkubāī, is working in her mother-in-law’s house. Sakkubāī went to Paṇḍharpur. She merged into Pāṇḍuraṅga. But faith is very great. Through that deep faith we can achieve any great deed whatever. In worldly, physical and material work alone, this true principle is not understood. When we place deep faith in anything, the result will surely come from it. So the chanting of the Name is most sacred, most precious. Through it the impurity in the mind is cleansed. Your saṅkalpas become true saṅkalpas, joyful ones. The saṅkalpas have taken on the form of Satya. Even after a man dies, saṅkalpas remain. You must experience such true saṅkalpas today. Those are what they called positive thoughts. When you fill your heart with Prema and Satya, all positive thoughts come. All these keep teaching the path of Satya. But when the delusions in you are untrue and impure, they all take shape as impure. With this in view, the Veda said “yad bhāvaṃ tad bhavati”, that is, as the feeling, so the result that follows.