In plain words
Though its 78 crores of people live in Bhārata, they live without the least relationship or tie with one another. Whatever person you look at: selfishness, self-interest, caste, creed; these divisions of class must be destroyed completely. No caste belongs to anyone. The human caste, the human race. To think, "I am a brahmin, I am a kṣatriya, I am a vaiśya, I am a śūdra" has come only from this delusion of the body, has it not! To think, "I am a boy, I am a youth, I am an old man, I am a man," is also the delusion of the body. Women and men are there, and are here. You declare, "I am a man." What is the basis for saying "I am a man"? Only from the delusion of the body do you say, "I am a man." They, only by the form of the body, say, "We are women." These are things tied on to bodies, not real truths. It is only for one who has the delusion of the body that all these feelings of difference keep holding him back. What caste have the five elements, God's gifts of grace? What caste is water? What caste is fire? What caste is the wind? What caste is the sky? They are the same for everyone, are they not? Why should we not feel such oneness, and develop it? So we are giving over our whole life to the delusion of the body alone and to the desires of the body alone. You may hold any number of personal feelings. But within the principle of the nation, which is the form of the whole, we must recognise the true feeling that we are all brothers and sisters.
For such a feeling of oneness to arise in us, we must take part in service. The body has come. But why has it come? We must enquire into this well. Truly, if we reflect, the body is like a leaf-plate. We place tasty dishes on that leaf-plate, eat and enjoy them, and afterwards carelessly throw that leaf-plate away. In the same way, on this leaf-plate called the body we must place the delicacies called good qualities, good conduct and right behaviour, enjoy them and delight in them, give them to others, and afterwards fling away this leaf-plate called the body without pity. But just because we have a leaf-plate, do we try to heap all sorts of unseemly things on it and eat them? We try to eat only the very best things. We long only for tasty things. We put our faith only in things that give health. So on this leaf-plate called the body we must serve ourselves sacred qualities. We must eat sacred feelings. We must experience divine principles in it. Just because we have a body, we must not do whatever deeds we please; just because we have a head, we must not enter into needless matters.