In plain words
God Is Nearer Than Anyone
“Sarvakhalvidaṃ Brahma”: think of everything as Brahman alone. Whatever you look at, it is Brahman alone. Many people went to Rāmakṛṣṇa with this very question. Vivekānanda went too. “Swāmījī! Have you seen God?” he asked. ‘Yes, I have seen Him,’ he said. ‘How did you see Him?’ he said. “Just as I am seeing you, just as you are seeing me, so I am seeing God,” he said. “Then why should you not show Him to me?” he said. “You can see Him,” he said. “But I do not see Him at all!” he said. “Paśyannapi ca na paśyati mūḍho mūḍho,” he said. “You crazy fellow! Even while you are seeing God, you think you have not seen God. There is no greater fool than this,” he said. You are looking at the world with material sight. I am looking at the world with the sight of God. So our feeling matters a great deal. Yet the people of this world weep for children. They weep for wives. They weep for wealth, they weep for grain. But not one person is to be seen who weeps for God! Only when you weep for God is God seen. What they weep for is the world; what they want to see is God. How will He be seen? That is impossible. Whatever you weep for, that is what you will see. “So weep for God,” taught Rāmakṛṣṇa Paramahaṃsa. Everything is there in our mind, but it does not come out. But when you want to see God, when you want God, you must give yourself to God. You toil for wealth, grain and fame. You toil for kin and friends. You toil for name and standing. Out of all the trouble you take, toil for God for just one moment, and you will surely have the darśan of God.
The worry there is in the world over supporting sons and friends, over business and talk, the worry that ever arises over wealth, grain, pleasure, fame and gain: that worry, in the world, for a moment on the twin lotus feet of Nanda's son, and what worry then, Lord, over the journey to the door of Yamarāja's dreadful house?