In plain words
After suffering so many hardships and losses to come here, what use is it if you do not put Swami's teachings into practice? We must take God as One. Only then does Śānti come to us. As long as oneness is not settled, we cannot escape wavering. Religions may differ, but the goal is one. Today you may criticise someone as a bad man. Tomorrow you may praise the same person as a good man. Good and bad are only what men have made up. Man is good by his very nature. Human life is most sacred. That is why it has been said, ‘Daivaṃ mānuṣa rūpeṇa’. Whatever God you look at, He appears only in human form. But we must not make the form our support. We must recognise the mighty power within it. We must keep our mind steady. You must have a man's mind, not a monkey mind. What use is it to be born a man and behave like a beast? There is no need for you to renounce everything and become a sannyāsī. See the God who is in human form. Believe that God is everywhere. There is no such thing as God being in one place and not in another.
With hands and feet everywhere, with eyes, heads and faces everywhere, with ears everywhere in the world, That stands enveloping all.
Desires veil your true nature
We grow paddy. But we do not eat it as paddy; we remove the outer husk and turn it into rice. As long as the husk is on, there is rebirth. Remove the husk, and there is no rebirth. Our desires are like the ‘husk’. So only when we give up desires can we be freed from the cycle of birth and death. Nobody eats rice as rice. With rice we make pulihora, we make sweet pongal, we make chitrannam, we make payasam. With rice flour we make dosas, we make idlis. Seen this way, the names change with the dish, but what is in all of them is rice itself. Though the rice is one, the dishes differ. We remove the husk, turn the paddy into rice, make many kinds of dishes from it and eat them. That itself is saṃskāra. In the same way, we must refine our mind too and make it pure. Everything needs saṃskāra. Saṃskāra means a good change.