In plain words
We must try to experience divinity with the world as our support. If we are to experience in some measure the divinity that is in humanness, we must take humanness too as our support.
Once upon a time, six students, great seekers after knowledge, came to the great sage Pippalāda, wanting to recognise the truth they did not know, holding that, since they had come to humanness, to search out the real truth was their duty, and wanting to know the supreme secret of life. Coming there and bowing with great humility: ‘Great sage! What is the cause of the coming forth of the world? What is the supreme goal of our life? Teach us and clear our doubt,’ they prayed. Pippalāda said: ‘Children! It is your good fortune that such a desire to know has come to you. But each one must have the fitness. Without that fitness, you cannot understand the teachings we give. Even for every small matter there is a fitness proper to it. If we want to give a patient medicine, a doctor must be in charge. If we want to build a bridge, there must be an engineer's authority. In just the same way, for everything we experience in daily life in the world there is an authority. The substance rests on its support only according to the vessel. Your desires are of the highest. But take some time, enquire well, examine what is lasting and what is passing, and by that try to understand the meaning of this. Haste is not good. By this very haste we push away the supreme truth we must know. Through this haste we waste our time, our body and our karma. Coming to life is itself the principle of the supreme goal. If we want to recognise the supreme goal, we must gain enough patience. Through haste we fall into many losses. That is why: haste makes waste, waste makes worry; so do not be in a hurry. Children, do not take a single step forward in haste. To achieve it in calm, stay in the āśrama for some time, obey its rule, and live,’ Pippalāda answered.