In plain words
Shaped by the conditions of those places, its forms and names keep changing. For that alone we must not think the water is different. The founders of religions, according to their own influence, according to the influence of the conditions of their place and time, and according to the tastes of the people as well, went on laying down certain rules and regulations.
For that alone we must not make distinctions, thinking that one is higher and another lower. The nature of religion is that it has no difference at all. To live these sacred religious traditions together, in common, and to spread and preach the divine Godhead: this is the chief duty of man. Satya is the chief principle. Manu the emperor, the author of all the codes of Dharma, went on teaching that in all religions we must not go back on the word we have given, we must keep the promise we have made, the word alone is what matters most for man, and keeping one's word is itself the true wealth. Socrates' chief disciple was Plato. This Plato's disciple was Aristotle. Aristotle's disciple was Alexander. This very Plato taught that the principle of government should be fostered and made to grow justly, righteously, patiently and with equality. He went on teaching the three, Truth, beauty, goodness, as the chief aim. This very thing all the Vedas alike called Satyam Śivam Sundaram. Though the force and meaning of the words may be thought of as many, the principle that is real is one alone. To trust in such unity as humanness, and to make ourselves experience Ānanda in divinity: this is the chief sādhana. The tradition of the Bhāratīyas, the culture of the Bhāratīyas, has gone on trusting in the divine Godhead alone. You can consider what a sacred meaning the word 'paṇḍito' has taught. It showed that there is not a single thing in this world that is not a form of God. From the stone to the gem, from the grass to the pārijāta flower, from the ant to the elephant, from the bird to the serpent, from the tree even to the ants, it taught unity. It trusted in divinity. It worshipped all as divine.
Bhāratīya culture taught too that the divine treasure called Prema must not be confined merely to human beings alone, and that this principle of Prema must be fostered and shared with all living beings. But for fools and ignorant people, who cannot recognise this eternal principle, to mock the Bhāratīyas, saying they worship stones and rocks and trees, they worship snakes, is utterly without meaning. In the eyes of the Bhāratīyas all things are indeed forms of God. The inner meaning of the words "All this is indeed Brahman; the whole world is pervaded by Viṣṇu" has gone on teaching this very truth.