In plain words
Hindi people call it pānī. Americans call it water. Differences may be seen among the languages of the lands, but the Supreme Principle is one!
We must guard this Supreme Principle through our speech. We must not bring in excessive speech at all. The sins the tongue commits are four. You must teach the children well. Speaking untruth is the first sin. Speaking too much is the second sin. Abusing others is the third sin. Telling tales is the fourth sin. Ādi Śaṅkara said that saying one thing and doing another is this very sin. Śaṅkara reached Kāśī with eleven disciples. He prayed. ‘God of gods, I have taken refuge in You. But I have committed three sins. Wipe away these three sins,’ he prayed. What were these three sins? The very first. ‘Yato vāco nivartante aprāpya manasā saha’: speech is not enough to describe You. Yet I am trying to describe such a One as You. Is that not a sin! God cannot be described. Knowing that neither mind nor speech can describe You, I describe You. What a sin this is. Saying one thing and doing another. He asked to be forgiven this sin. I address You as the Indweller of all, the inner Self of all beings. While teaching everyone that You are everywhere, I have come to Kāśī to see You. Is this not a sin! That the body is physical,
the body made of the five elements is frail; when it will be left, no one knows; they have set its limit at a hundred years, but do not trust that word in your heart; in childhood, or in the prime of youth, or in old age, or in extreme old age, in a village, in a forest, or in the midst of water, where it will be left, no one knows; death is certain for man; while the body is there, to become wise and to know oneself is the principle of Dharma, consider it: this is the true path, the word of Śrī Sāī!
A hovel of filth, a servant's basket wasting with disease, a tuber born to move about, a thornbush that cannot swim the sea of worldly life, a quiver of arrows: rise and look! Thinking of our danger, this body as lasting, do not trust it, O mind! Take refuge at the feet of Hari.
I know that this body is impermanent. Yet I am making an effort to protect the body. Is this not a sin! Who can protect this body? No one can. It is like a bubble of water. The mind is like a mad monkey. MIND IS A MAD MONKEY, BODY is LIKE A WATER BUBBLE. DON'T FOLLOW THE MIND, DON'T FOLLOW THE BODY. FOLLOW THE COnSCIOUS. This is the principle of the Ātma. Put your faith in the true principle of the Ātma. "To think that such impermanent things are true when one does them: that is the sin," he said. We must instil such divine feelings in these children. ‘My dear child! You are not separate. Names and forms are different. You must not think of difference on account of them. The moment you are born they call you child. At ten years they call you boy. At 30 years they call you man. At 75 years you become grandfather. In all these states you are one. All people experience child, boy, man, grandfather, but you are one. In brahmacarya, in the householder's life, in vānaprastha, in sannyāsa, the divinity is one. It is because such divine feelings are not taught to students that students look on spirituality with neglect, as something untrue.
‘My dear child! Your very first gurus are your parents. You must revere your parents as equal to God’: this you must tell them. Your blood, your head, your money are your parents'. First of all show gratitude to your parents. You must teach the children that it is their duty.