In this verse, Jagadguru Shree Kripaluji Maharaj explains to us how easy it is to engage in bhakti (devotion).  Bhakti doesn't have any conditions; you can practice devotion anywhere - in a temple or alone.  You can do it even in a graveyard.  It doesn't have any rules of time that you must do bhakti only after taking a bath or early in the morning.  You can do it even if you are sick with fever or are lying in the bed.  You can still engage in bhakti, and the only condition is that it should be done with a humble heart, a heart full of trust and faith in God and free from deception.

There are so many stories of how simple people with simple hearts attain God with ease.  Here is a story from the Christian tradition.  There was a place of worship, a church, with the deity of Mother Mary.  People used to go there and ask Mother Mary for different things, "Mother, please give me good food to eat, give me wealth and a good house to live." 

There was an acrobat, who used to display his gymnastic abilities to people. After his performance he would extend his begging bowl and say, "Please give me something."  He used to work very hard all day long and yet not earn enough.  So he thought, "Everybody goes to Mother Mary to ask, let me also go.  I will not ask for much but I need two breads every day."

One fine evening, when everybody had retired for the day, he went to the church and hid somewhere inside the church.  The door was locked from outside.  He was the only person present in the church.  He cleared off some of the chairs and tables and created an empty space to perform his acrobatics.  Soon he started displaying his skills to Mother Mary.  His theory was, "I am going to ask her for something.  So let me first show my gymnastics and please her like I do for the world. " He was a simple hearted person.  He did not think that it was merely a stone deity.  He thought, "It's a divine Mother and if it is a divine Mother then I must show my play to her."  For half an hour he showed the best performance of his life and by the end of it he was sweating.  The sound of his show from inside the church was heard outside and people started wondering, "What is happening inside the church today?  Sometimes it seems like a table is getting knocked or the chair is falling and sometimes a man suddenly talks.  There must be someone inside the church." They peeped inside and saw a man jumping around.  The crowd gathered to enter the church and catch hold of the stranger.  Everyone rushed inside the church and started beating the acrobat.  Fuming, the people yelled, "How dare you do this?  You have broken the property of this place.  It is such a sacred church and you have been jumping around out here." 

The story says that at that very moment there was a sudden thunderbolt and a brilliant lightening.  Mother Mary manifested herself and said, "Don't beat him.  He is my real devotee.  He has faith in me.  You people regularly come to the church but merely pretend to be devotees.  Whereas today he truly believed that I am present here and showed his play to me."

Such stories in all different traditions are revealed by the Saints who tell us that bhakti doesn't have any prerequisites of place, time or rules.  What it requires is a simple heart.

The science of devotion tells us that bhakti is of two kinds. One is called vaidhi bhakti and the other is called raganuga bhakti.   Vaidhi bhakti is that which is done in accordance with the rules of the Vedas.  In this, devotion has to be performed as per the rules prescribed in the Vedas.  Whereas, in raganuga bhakti, the rules are there but they are secondary and the love for God is primary.  Vaidhi bhakti is done with all the rules but the element of love is not dominant, on the other hand, there is raganuga bhakti where the rules are present but the goal of rules is to simply help us evoke our bhakti.  We don't become slaves of the rules; if the rules help us, we accept them, if they don't help us in our devotion, we reject them. 

For example there is a rule:
 "Wake up in brahma muhurt (auspicious time), take a bath and then engage in your devotional practice."  Suppose somebody is sick, the person has got fever and he can't take bath in the morning.  What does he do? Should he not engage in devotion that day because he cannot have a bath?  The purpose of taking bath is that its helps you in your devotion; here devotion is the primary activity, not the bath.  In other words, the goal is bhakti and the rules are helpers.  But, we shift our focus and we make rules as the goal and bhakti as subservient to them.