In plain words
Working as a tahsildar, he went on using even the tax he collected to build a temple for God, to build the temple's compound and to adorn God. When Tānīṣā tormented him: “I am one offered to Rāma, not one offered to desire. I am one wholly offered to Rāma.”
All these three recognised the all-pervading Divinity. Not only this. They were men who believed that God alone is also the protector of all. They alone are true devotees of the Lord. God is seen everywhere, but today God is seen nowhere. The devotees of today strive only for protections of an outward kind. “We need the government's protection. We need the protection of Gurkhas.” These are devotees only for their bellies' sake, not devotees offered to God. The devotees of those days offered themselves, holding that God alone protects all, and went about freely, without any fear or dread. When the devotees of those days said “God is all-pervading”, there was an authority in it. The devotees who say “all-pervading” today use this word as it suits the moment.
A man was on a journey. Near a cremation ground there was an āśram. Because the heat was fierce, the man entered the āśram, thinking, “I will go into this āśram, rest a while and then go on.” The gurujī who lived in the āśram had gathered many devotees and was spending the time with them in satsaṅg. “The gathering of this great soul is most fortunate. As they say, ‘The great do not come for nothing’; this sacred chance has come to me”: with that, he too sat listening for some time. Evening came. Along with the guru and the disciples he went outside, to enjoy the cool breeze. Then a strange sight appeared. Everyone was stunned. “What is this sight, what is this thing, what is this shape?” they all wondered. “Gurujī!” Smiling: “This is the body of a man who has died. Jackals and dogs are trying to carry it off. The jackals are taking away this corpse that was buried early this morning.” Meanwhile a big jackal came running. “It came, and who knows what they said to each other in their own language, but it left the corpse and took all the jackals away with it,” he said. The disciples asked the guru, “What is the inner meaning of leaving a corpse they had got hold of, without keeping it?”