In plain words
Rāmakṛṣṇa came into the court. The very moment he came, Tānīṣā asked, ‘Well, Rāmakṛṣṇa! Is the Bhārata finished?’ ‘It is all done. There are two or three doubts. I can consult you, sir, and settle those doubts; apart from that, the whole Bhārata is finished,’ he said. ‘Then what are those doubts? Ask,’ said Tānīṣā. ‘Well! I feel a little hesitant to ask in this gathering. I will put my questions when you come alone,’ he said. Very well! ‘Ask those doubts and have them settled,’ and with that the two went into a room. Rāmakṛṣṇa tells him about the Bhārata. ‘Among the Pāṇḍavas, Dharmaja is you, sir. The ministers you like, so-and-so, are Bhīma, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva. That is done. Your enemies I have likened to the Kauravas here. There is no doubt at all about this. But for the five Pāṇḍavas there is one Draupadī alone. I mean to cast your wife as Draupadī. Is that really to your liking?’ he asked. ‘Hey, you! Hey, my wife would become the wife of all these ministers!’ he thought; ‘I don't want your Bhārata, I don't want anything; you go away!’ and with that he gave him a handsome sum of money and sent him off. That is to say, if one wants to enjoy their good name without renunciation, is that something that can be done? The Pāṇḍavas took this Pāñcālī with all their heart, with a sacred Ātma and with sacred feeling. Their renunciation, their feeling, their purity: will they come to this Tānīṣā just because he wants them? So if you think, ‘Only their name and renown must come to me,’ and think, ‘But their conduct I will not follow,’ it becomes only an artificial life, not a true life. So if today we want to uphold the sacred culture of Bhārata, the sacred blood of Bhārata, and the sacred land of Bhārata too, and to win a renown that has meaning, it is only when we put the morality and integrity of Bhārata into practice that we can call ourselves sons of Mother Bhārata; otherwise, if we merely take on names, saying, ‘Those people did this, these people did that,’ what starts up is an artificial life. We must not be people of artificial life, like a Tānīṣā.