In English
This humanity is a motley crowd of pilgrims
It is often said that the caste, out of hatred and contempt, has denied to the other castes the chance to study the . If you go out to catch fish, you must equip yourself with the rod, the hook, and the bait to attract the fish. If you desire to master the , you must have the rod of dharmic living, the hook of vedic Sanskrit, and the bait, viz., the who is revered by the and who revered the in turn. The has been prepared by a series of purificatory rituals. This enables and entitles the to pronounce the and to expound them. Everyone has not won the same sublime impulses and impressions. All of you listen to Me, but do all of you understand what I say to the same extent? Or, do all of you practise what I suggest to the same extent? No. Each understands or practises according to the tendencies, the roots that those tendencies have laid in the mind. People are not so uniform. One person is not equipped like another. It is a motley crowd of pilgrims, this humanity.