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In plain words

"But one cannot become a King Janaka all of a sudden. King Janaka practised much austerity in solitude. Even while living in the world, one has to live in solitude from time to time. If you can go away from the world, alone, and weep for God even for three days, that is good. Even if you find the time to think of Him in solitude for one day, that too is good. People shed a whole jugful of tears for wife and children; tell me, who weeps for God? From time to time one must stay in solitude and practise sadhana for God. Living in the world, in the midst of work, it is very hard at first to make the mind steady. It is like a young tree by the footpath: while it is a sapling, the goats and cattle eat it up unless you put a fence round it. A fence at first; once the trunk is grown, a fence is no longer needed. You may then tie an elephant to the trunk and it will come to no harm.