In plain words
But it is very hard to understand this Sanātana Dharma, the true saying that shows the oneness of the three times, the three worlds and the three guṇas. That is precisely why certain of these intermediate dharmas arose, the dharma of the body, the dharma of caste, the dharma of the individual, the dharma of religion, the dharmas of society, and by our following such intermediate dharmas too, we become people who have given this Sanātana Dharma some growth, people who have given it some encouragement. If we do not follow these very dharmas, of the body, of society, of caste, of religion, in the proper way, there will be no chance for us to enter even a little into Sanātana Dharma. A small example of this. In the body there are many limbs. The well-being of all these limbs can be called the well-being of the body; but when any limb in this body falls prey to certain kinds of pain or hardship, the body as a whole cannot be called well. The well-being of all these dharmas mentioned above, the dharma of religion, the dharma of caste, the dharma of the individual, the dharma of society, makes that of Sanātana Dharma shine to some extent. There is a little story about this. Five or six blind men went up to an elephant. One went and was feeling the elephant's belly. After he had felt that belly well, when someone came and questioned him, ‘Sir! What is the elephant like?’, he said it was like a wall. Well, another blind man came, took hold of the ears and felt them thoroughly. When yet another person asked what the elephant was like, he described the elephant as like a winnowing fan, like a hand fan. Another took hold of its leg and felt it carefully. Well, when he was asked, he said, ‘The elephant is like a big pillar.’ Another went and took hold of the tail. Asked, ‘What is the elephant like?’, he said, ‘It is like a rope.’ Now, their describing the limb they had held, their saying so, is quite right.