In plain words
We must take the body as our support. We must see God through the body itself. The body is a chariot. We must make our journey by the chariot itself. You are sitting in this chariot and driving. But you are not the chariot. You are only the driver of the chariot! The chariot is one thing; the driver is another. The body is the chariot. You take this very chariot to be ‘I’. No: within, there is one who is the driver of this chariot. Steering, accelerator: all are in his control alone. The body is the chariot, the car. For this car the four puruṣārthas called Dharma, artha, kāma and Mokṣa are the tyres. There must be air in the four tyres. What is this air? That is faith. There must be trust in all things. Here the mind is the steering. Buddhi is the switch. The stomach is the engine. The food we eat is the petrol for it. ‘Bhikṣānnaṃ deharakṣārthaṃ’, ‘vastraṃ śītanivāraṇaṃ’. Tiffin is its oil. Wherever we must travel, we must turn the mind there. The tyres are outside. The turning tyres are what we see. But the steering that turns them from within is in his hand. Whichever way you want to go, if you turn the steering that way, the tyres go off that way. Dharma, artha, kāma and Mokṣa are only inert tyres! But in these tyres there must be the air called faith. Only then will the tyres travel on the right road.
No place without God, nor any name that is not His, is to be found in the world
Students! Just because it is a car, you must not make it travel any way you like, on whatever road it chances upon. You must travel taking note of the ups and downs on that road. You must try to live after weighing what is lasting and what is passing: in society, in what situation, under what influence, at what age and in what way you should conduct yourself. Because you have a car, you cannot drive it any way you please. ‘How should we be humble before elders? How should we respect teachers? How should we love our parents? How should we pray to God? Along what path should we advance in our work? How should we carry out our duty?’