In plain words
They fail to understand God rightly. Falling prey to these harsh feelings and hardships, they revile divinity. This concerns only an individual; it does not concern the fundamental. Toiling for these selfish ends, they fall into despair of many kinds and criticise even God. All of you know this. Tyāgarāja was a great poet, a devotee, a great singer. But, unable to bear the hardships that came his way: ‘O Rāma! In how many ways have I worshipped You? Kept You in mind? I have described You in song. But You fail to understand my sufferings. Is there no Bhakti in me? Is there no power in You? There is Bhakti in me. At all times and in every state I keep remembering Your Name alone, repeating Your Name alone, singing Your Name alone. I think You Yourself lack power.’ At once he closed his eyes again and grieved. This ignorance had arisen in him. Then he turns back and begs Rāma's forgiveness.
Would a monkey cross the ocean? Would a lady tie You to a mortar? Would Lakṣmī Devī love You? Would Lakṣmaṇa serve You? Would Bharata, of subtle mind, gaze and gaze and bow down? Ah, how great Rāma's power is!
‘O Rāma! I could not recognise Your power. I am a man. I am ignorant’: so he reproached himself. In this way many such great devotees too, unable to bear some sufferings, go on criticising God. But they fail to recognise the truth that these hardships came only for the sake of a joy. Without hardships, joys have no value at all. ‘Na sukhāt labhyate sukham’: joy does not come to us from joy; without darkness, light has no brightness. Darkness itself gives this light its brightness.