In plain words
So we must keep this brotherhood as our aim within faith in the Ātma itself. In Bhārata there is a belief that for faults and sins committed, knowingly or unknowingly, the sin is wiped away the very moment you bathe at the Triveṇī. But committing sins, committing faults, taking baths: do this, in this way, however many times you like, and no fruit comes of it. Repent just once, from the depths of the heart, and that itself is the atonement. Its principle is that, having bathed at this Triveṇī just once, from that very moment you must commit no more sins or faults. Now, today you have taken the Triveṇī bath. Whatever faults or mistakes were in you before this have been made pure. From today on, you must set about keeping your heart safe, giving no room again to those faults or to such mistakes. Now, if you ask how the name Triveṇī came about: the Gaṅgā and the Yamunā, these two rivers alone, are visible to us outwardly. The Sarasvatī is not visible to us. It flows hidden beneath. In the same way, the river Gaṅgā is like pure karma. The Yamunā is like selfless Prema. And the Sarasvatī is what takes in, for these two, the principle of Jñāna in the seat of the heart. So today you must set about doing pure karmas. You must give a Prema that looks for no return. In the Bhagavad Gītā this very thing is called niṣkāma karma. Every Bhāratīya must take the vow that we will practise such karma. In the Bhagavad Gītā, where the first śloka says Dharmakṣetre kurukṣetre, the letter da is the first letter. The last śloka: ‘Yatrayogīśvara kṛṣṇo … mama’. Ma is the last letter. The first is the letter da. The last is the letter ma. Between these two, da and ma, lies the Bhagavad Gītā. Dama means this: Dharma itself is our life. Dharmakṣetram. Dharmakṣetra: in our Bhārata alone has it earned such a meaningful name. And the second, they said, is Kurukṣetra. You may wonder what this is. One meaning of kuru is food. And one meaning of food is Brahman. This body depends on food alone.