In plain words
Money comes and goes, morality comes and grows. For what is transient you give up everything, your work, your time and your body, and dedicate them to it. But can you not dedicate even a single moment to God? Can you not dedicate even a single action to God? You do not use your time or your body for God at all. When a man is going along some road and a temple comes into view, he goes like this with both hands. A salutation to God. Without this salutation, what would God lack? Make your salutation from the heart. Stand still, remember Him calmly, and make your salutation. But all today’s sādhanas appear to be forced sādhanas. They appear to be Artificial sādhanas. They are not Heartful. What is the use of doing sādhanas like these, which are not heartful? It is enough to call “Rāma” once, from the heart. But they do japa for 24 hours: Rām Rām Rām. This goes on as something artificial. Even when the japa beads are not in his hand, even while he sleeps, his fingers go on turning. Practice. All these are things that happen through this practice. They are not things that happen from the heart. Remember God once from the heart, love Him, and then enter upon your work. Sakkubāī went on showing the world so great an ideal. Because of this, Nāmadeva too became Sakkubāī’s disciple. He kept up the chanting of the Name constantly. He went on teaching the truth that remembering is itself the means of crossing over. Once Nāmadeva and Jñānadeva were travelling through a forest. For Jñānadeva everything was Jñāna. Through Jñāna one can gain anything. When they had gone some distance, they grew thirsty. The two of them saw an old, abandoned well. In that abandoned well some water could be seen, far down at the bottom. Jñānadeva took the form of a bird, went down into the well, drank the water and came back. Jñānadeva can take any form. Nāmadeva said, “I need not take such a form. My God is right within me. I must bring God to me; I need not go to God.” He sat down under a tree.