In plain words
Once the seed of Bhakti is sown, the syllable ‘ga’, ‘Jñāna’, springs up in us. What does this Jñāna give us? ‘Jñānā daivatu kaivalyaṃ.’ This Jñāna is the second syllable. The syllable ‘va’. Vairāgya must come. If we stay in ‘rāga’ alone for ever so long, when will we gain Vairāgya?
That is why this, in the Veda too: ‘Nakarmaṇā naprajayā dhanena tyāgenaike amṛtatvamānasuḥ.’ This Vairāgya must spring up in us. With Bhakti, Jñāna; with Jñāna, Vairāgya. What comes through Vairāgya? ‘Tatvaṃ asi’: the trust comes, ‘I myself am That.’
Once this Jñāna of the tattva is settled, Mukti comes to us naturally. That is why bha, ga, va, ta, mu are the root principles that win us Mukti. In this, Prahlāda's story is most essential. Prahlāda too fell prey to many kinds of suffering. Bhakti meets a great many obstacles. That is why the pleasure is an interval between two pains. If this Bhakti is to grow in us, many kinds of hardship will keep coming. No stranger tormented this Prahlāda; his own father himself kept tormenting him. What was the reason? The son was remembering ‘Hari’, whom he disliked, his enemy. Nursing hatred towards God is a great sin. So he hated God. That is why Hiraṇyakaśipu met with many kinds of hardship.
Rāvaṇa too went on hating Rāma, who was God. Hating Rāma, he wanted to have Sītā. Whose is Sītā? Rāma's own! If you put Rāma at a distance and want Sītā, who is Rāma's own, how will you get her? That is why, by hating God, nobody can achieve anything at all. There are so many good fruits that all have achieved by loving God.