In plain words
Others cannot take our Ānanda away; others cannot give us Ānanda. Ānanda is within us; it springs only from sacred feelings. So we ourselves must make our Ānanda grow. We must fill our hearts with compassion, scatter Śānti all around, and grow divine and noble feelings. If we hope that time will give us Ānanda without our doing what we have to do, how can that be? If you hope for good results, you must nourish good thoughts.
The result comes according to the thoughts
Happiness comes only out of hardship. Happiness is the pause between two pains. Without pains, happiness cannot be had. Whatever riches people may hold, whatever sādhanas they may have done, the result comes to them only according to the deeds they have done. If you go to a neem tree and look for a mango, will you find one? If you go to a mango tree and ask for a neem fruit, will you get it? As the tree, so the fruit. Just so, as the thought, so the result. Man is deluded into thinking that hardship and happiness come to him from outside. But hardship and happiness are not outside; they are in his own thoughts. So he must change his thoughts. He must transform his mind.
Today man is changing, but the mind is not changing. Days and years slip by, but man's feelings are not changing into noble ones. Only when his feelings change into sacred ones, given to the good of others, will Śānti come to him. Only when his feelings are sacred will a sacred result come to him.
Under the sway of this Kali age, what man thinks is one thing, what he says is another, what he does is another. Yet whatever he says, whatever he does, the result comes only according to his thoughts. So he must make his mind sacred and become a good man.