In plain words
If a man walks by the word he has spoken, if a man walks by the word he has given, is no mere man: he becomes great. If a man does not walk by the word he has spoken, he is no man, but only a beast.
Man's purity, man's fame and honour, man's high standing: all of it rests on his word. The word itself is man's life. To break one's word is to lose one's life. Man's words cost nothing, but their value is great. Only when man keeps such a precious word does he make his humanness worthwhile. Tulasīdās was one who, to keep his own word, gave up his very life, experienced divinity and spread what is sacred.
He was born to the couple Ātmārām Dube and Tulasī. He was born in the year 1554 of the Vikrama era. He was born on the seventh day of the bright half of Śrāvaṇa, in the year 1493 of the Christian era. Ordinarily children begin to cry the moment they are born. As for the reason, there are two meanings to it. Spiritually:
The moment they are born from the mother's womb they cry and wail, and do not laugh; you know why they cry, if you watch how the days pass by.
In our life, about the future, about the responsibilities of life, about the work by which one carries out life's duty: because man is pure when he is born, all these appear to him as in a mirror. Life can never be merely passing the time happily in play and song. Life is full of many problems. Man's life is a garland strung with such flowers as troubles, losses, gains, blame and reproach. So the newborn child, recognising that life is no ordinary thing and that in the future he will have to face many sorrows, cries then and there at the sorrows to come.