In plain words
Only when delusion wanes is Mokṣa won
Whatever work we do, we must do it for the Ātma alone. Every single thing must be done in the spirit of offering it to God. When we hold in our heart the feeling, “Sarvakarma bhagavatprītyarthaṃ”, Mokṣa is won easily. Only when attachment to the physical wanes is Mokṣa won. It is because these two, the Ahaṅkāra that says ‘I’ and the attachment that says ‘mine’, are in us that this world binds us. So first of all we must try to live without Ahaṅkāra and without the sense of ‘mine’. The more we reduce them, the nearer we come to Mokṣa. Less luggage, more comfort makes travel a pleasure. So on the journey of life we must keep reducing the luggage of desires. But today, as a man grows, his desires keep growing too. As desires grow, the man wastes away, and divinity is wholly buried in him. Above all, what we must nourish is divinity! However carefully we hide away and guard the rest, all of it must waste away one day! We may keep the money we have earned in a bank; we may put it in a steel cupboard and lock it; we may arrange for security. But one day all of it turns to ashes. What never wanes in us, at any time and wherever we go, is only the principle of the Ātma. That is the principle of the ‘I’.
If we keep remembering the Name of God, no troubles will come to us
Many thousands of years ago Śrī Rāma came down as the Avatāra. The principle of Rāma is that which delights all. That is why he was given the name ‘Rāma’. Even now people keep thinking of the Name of Rāma. When anyone is in any pain, he says, ‘Rāma, Rāma.’ Even into the ear of the dying they say, ‘Rāma, Rāma.’ What we must delight in is the Name of Rāma and nothing else. Whatever the Name, if we trust that the divine principle is the principle of the Ātma and keep remembering it, troubles will never come to us. We earn a great deal. But for whom? At the very end, are you taking with you even a single naya paisa in your hand?