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In plain words

"Theirs is not the devotion that comes by striving and sadhana. 'So much japa and so much meditation must be done, worship must be done in this way': all this is devotion by rule. It is like crossing a field when the rice is standing: you have to go round and round along the ridges. Or like wanting to go to the village just across, but having to go round and round by the winding river.