In plain words
We need Śānti. Where does Śānti come to us from? When we contemplate the principle of God, that itself takes on the form of Śānti. Today, wherever you go in the world, Śānti is not to be seen. Ask anyone. I want peace, I want peace. Where is this peace? Is it in the world? No. In the world there are pieces. God alone is the home of peace. He created everything. He created every kind of comfort. He said, Use them as you please. But He laid down one condition. He said, As you make your saṅkalpa, so you will have to experience it. Ānanda and Śānti He kept with Himself. However many ways a man enjoys things, he still wants Ānanda. However many pleasures he enjoys, man has no Śānti. So when we ask ourselves why we must worship God: I want that, I want this. We should not worship for the sake of those desires. “O God! I ask for what I do not have and You have. No one gives this. I have no Śānti. And You are the home of Śānti. No one else has this Śānti. So I pray for Śānti. There is no Ānanda in me. Only sorrow, all the time.” Man is sunk in worries.
Being born is a worry, living on the earth a worry, family life a worry, death a worry, all of childhood a worry, old age a worry, to live is a worry, to come to ruin a worry, every action a worry, hardship a worry, joy itself a worry, a strange worry.
Sitting under the tamarind tree of these twelve worries and wishing to enjoy happiness: how will it ever come? If you want happiness, take refuge in God. Ānanda and Śānti will come to you from nowhere but God. For what do you pray to God?