In plain words
To give our body its bathing, its drinking and the rest every day is a tradition common to all the people of Bhārata. Yet the people of Bhārata do not merely perform the bath, the sandhyā rites and the like for the impermanent body only: they also practise a bath for the workings of the mind, a kind of cleansing called śauca. In keeping with the sacred spiritual culture of Bhārata, every one of its people comes to Prayāga from all four quarters to take such a sacred bath. Though there are differences, whether in the regional tongues of the country, north, sourth, east, west, or in people's customs and ways, or in their languages, the people of Bhārata have believed the places of pilgrimage to be sacred, divine places that prove the oneness of man. We need not go that far. Now you students, come here from every state in the land of Bhārata, know for yourselves that in this place you are experiencing a principle of the Mother that is oneness, a principle of the Ātma that is divinity, and a close brotherhood. But we must inquire how this name Prayāga came about. Because three sacred rivers meet there, one name for it is Triveṇī Saṅgama. This triveṇī is something you can recognise especially in women. In the plait they braid, three strands come together and make one plait. This too is called triveṇī. The very oneness of this triveṇī is called ekaveṇī. Those three come together and become one. But today, unfortunately, they do not bring those three together; they go about with their hair flung loose, like demons. Kālikādevī takes on that form. Such a way can never be held in honour by us, the people of Bhārata; and for this, a small example. When Sītādevī was wandering in the forest, while she was with her husband, she used to wear her hair in two plaits, they say. After Rāvaṇa carried her off, after she came to the Aśoka grove, in her separation from her husband she did no grooming of any kind, and her two plaits became one, a single plait, they say.