In plain words
Before we were born we did not know who she was; after we were born she became our mother. But God is not like that. After we are born, before it, and after we die too, He is there. He alone is our goal. So keep that as your aim, not the rest,’ said Tulasīdās. Then she took heart. ‘If what you have done is wrong, God will condemn it. I am speaking from my own experience,’ he said. Tulasīdās had never once left his wife's side. But one night his wife rebuked him: ‘The infatuation you have for this body of flesh and blood, foul with the stench of urine and faeces: had it been for Rāma, you would have been far better off.’ Those words went straight into him. From that moment he turned back and made his way to Prayāga. So he said, ‘My wife is my guru.’ In this way husbands through their wives, and wives through their husbands, have striven to reach divinity. When someone comes out against divinity, there is nothing wrong in our standing up to them. They have no wish to give up God. As great as their wish is, so great is yours. So if you want honour, you must honour everyone. When you do not honour others, who will honour you? When you revile others, everyone reviles you.