In plain words
There is no good fortune greater than this. You do not know how great man is. “Daivaṃ mānuṣa rūpeṇa.” God too takes on human form. Divinity is present in every man.
Bhavānī and Śaṅkara are within man himself. Bhavānī and Śaṅkara are the very form of Śiva and Śakti together. ‘Bhavānī’ means śraddhā. ‘Śaṅkara’ means faith. Where Bhavānī, who is śraddhā, abides, there Śiva, who is faith, dances the tāṇḍava. Life without śraddhā and faith is empty. The whole world rests on these two alone. Bhavānī, who is śraddhā, and Śaṅkara, who is faith, are in everyone. This whole of nature is nothing but the principle of Ardhanārīśvara. Every person must try to recognise this divinity that is in humanity. There is no spirituality greater than this. The worship of Bhavānī and Śaṅkara is man's chief duty.
Sorrow, more than pleasure, is our great friend
Pleasure and sorrow, attachment and aversion, the longings of the senses that man experiences... All these arise from the mind itself. Only because the mind is bound up with the feeling of duality do all these appear. When one fosters the feeling of oneness in the mind, such feelings of duality do not arise at all. Man must accept pleasure and sorrow with an even mind. From sorrow the gain is greater than the loss. In ancient times great souls asked for sorrow, not for pleasure. Rather than the Ānanda gained from pleasure, the Ānanda gained from sorrow is the lasting one. In truth, sorrow is a greater friend to us than pleasure.
In the Mahābhārata, when Kuntī Devī fell at Kṛṣṇa's feet, Kṛṣṇa: “Mother! What do you want?” he asked. Kuntī Devī: “Kṛṣṇa! Grant me hardships always. For in times of hardship itself I worshipped You and loved You beyond measure. When I enjoyed every comfort and luxury as Pāṇḍu's queen, I did not remember You at all. From the very day my sons were driven to the forests I have remembered You more and more.