In plain words
They all keep coming and going. You should pay them no heed. Only when you mind them do they hurt you; if you pay them no mind, none of them can hurt you.
If the command is set aside, how can grace come?
Īśvara's family sets the example. There is no way at all to compare the state of families today with it. Hatred between mother and son... hatred between wife and husband... hatred between brothers... hatred is flaring up in every walk of life. Pārvatī and Īśvara teach plainly, by their own example, that hatred should be given not the smallest room. But who is listening to these teachings? Who is putting them into practice? People worship devoutly, but who follows God's ideals? What good is it to worship God without following His ideals? When one keeps the Name of Īśvara in mind and acts against Īśvara's command, how is the grace of Īśvara to come? First of all, we must foster unity. We must put down envy and hatred. It is envy and hatred that destroy man. In truth, man is one meant to enjoy great Ānanda and to have many joys. But he cannot find any happiness at all. He is forgetting the Ānanda that is within himself. In truth, man has no such thing as sorrow. Man is made of Ānanda; he is Prema embodied. Why then should sorrow come to such a one? The cause of it is breaking God's command. Sorrow is nothing but the ‘reaction’ of one's own evil thoughts. If you imagine that the person coming towards you hates you, a fight will break out between the two of you right there in the street. Instead, the moment you see him: ‘Hello brother! How are you?’ Speak to him so, with Prema. He too will greet you in turn: ‘Brother, how are you?’ Only when you show Prema does that Prema shine back from the other person. As your ‘action’ is, so will the ‘reaction’ be. If the person before you reviles you, it is not that person who reviles you. It is your own evil thoughts that take on that shape and revile you. So you must foster holy thoughts and do holy deeds.