In plain words
You are keeping Satya and Dharma to mere words. There is no use in saying them only with the mouth; a gramophone record says them too. You must say them with the heart; you must do them with the heart. Only then will they give the fruit that is due; they will be printed in our heart for ever; they will stay in our home, at our side, as our companions, before our eyes, and sustain us in every way. You must strive for this kind of sādhana.
Satya is our life-breath, Dharma our breath
However many sādhanas you do, you must take Satya and Dharma as the chief thing; you must keep them for ever. However many Names you utter, however many mantras you recite, however many yajñas and yāgas you perform, what stands in the very end, what goes along with us, is these two alone! So follow these two. Satya and Dharma have been coming with you through many births. They are not things that change. When you take these two as your support, you need do no other sādhana beyond this. You are doing a great many sādhanas. But in the end all those sādhanas are going to waste. You do japa, saying, “Rām, Rām, Rām...” The rosary turns in the hand, but the mind does not turn to the Name. The turning of the rosary is not what matters; the mind must turn to it. Only then is it truly fruitful. Whatever we do, we must do it with Satya; whatever we say must rest on Satya. Satya is our chief life-breath. Dharma is our breath. Only when we make these two our support does our life bear fruit. If you forget these, then however many discourses you hear, however much you study the Upaniṣads, the Gītā and the śāstras, they cannot make your birth fruitful. For Mukti, these two alone are what matter.
‘When minds are good, what religion is bad!’
“We are a part of God”: you must always keep this in mind. You must recognise the bond you have with God. This ‘relationship’ is not something that will ever go.