In plain words
But you think the physical body is your form. The body is not you. The body is fleeting, like a bubble on water. The mind is like a mad monkey. The inner Ātma alone is your true form. So follow the inner Ātma. What do you think the vision of the Ātma is? To see the Ātma you need not go anywhere. You must turn the outward look into the inward look; only then can the divine form of the Ātma be seen.
One man was abusing another. A friend of the man being abused came up: “He abuses you so much, and you sit there with your mouth shut! Couldn't you land him a couple?” he said. Then the other: “Foolish one! Who is abusing whom? In the body that abuses and in the body that is abused, what is there is one and the same Ātma. So he is abusing his own self. Why then should I be angry?” he said.
In this world, who loves whom? Who hates whom? Whomever man loves, it is as if he loves his own self; whomever he hates, it is as if he hates his own self. There are no others at all. For what is in others too is himself! Only through attachment to the body does man think of himself as separate. Only so long as there is attachment to the body is there the feeling of ‘others’. Give up attachment to the body, and there are no others; all are one. This is the vision of the Ātma! The Ātma has no particular form. Ānanda is the Ātma; Caitanya is the Ātma. To understand this principle of the Ātma, you must enter into service. As far as you are able, you must help everyone. True Ānanda lies in service itself.
You long for the grace of God. But what is the effort you must make for it? A small example: suppose you toiled hard to earn money and then put it on deposit in a bank. To get that money back, you must put your signature on a cheque and hand it in. In the same way, the merit you have gathered over many births you have deposited safely in the ‘bank’ of God. To get that ‘money’ back, you must put the signature called Prema on the cheque called sacrifice and offer it to the ‘bank manager’ called God.