In plain words
If you do not give up the sense of difference, then however long you do tapas, even if you sit day and night doing japa, there is no gain. Such tapas merely turns into tamas. ‘I have been doing japa for so many years. Yet God has not appeared to me!’ With that, some lose heart and give up their sādhana halfway. To see God, you must develop oneness. To think, “God is separate, Rāma is separate, Kṛṣṇa is separate”, is foolishness.
Who is God? Where is He?
The five elements themselves are forms of God. The five senses themselves are forms of God. Whether it is what we like or what troubles us, they alone bring us all of it. So first of all you must control the senses. Where is God? Who is God? Your mind is God. (Who is God? Where is He? Your own mind is God.) ‘Mana eva manuṣyāṇāṃ kāraṇaṃ bandhamokṣayoḥ’: bondage and Mokṣa, both of them, come about only through the mind. So Manas is truly God; Buddhi is truly God; citta is truly God; the senses too are the very forms of God. So you must worship God with purity of citta. You must offer your citta to God. You must not defile your senses with the six inner enemies, kāma, krodha and the rest. Kāma means desire. You must turn it towards God. You must long for God alone. You must love God alone. That alone is Prema worthy of the name. But to be drawn by people's forms and names and to love them is not Prema. If you love God, everything comes within your reach. All your hopes must be turned towards God alone. Every single thing must be for the pleasure of God. In whatever you do, you must act with the thought of God. You may love a person. But do not see that person merely as a person; you must see the principle of God within him.