In plain words
The great qualities you have, nothing else has.’ When we put any food on the tongue and it is sweet, it has so large a heart that it thinks, ‘I should not enjoy it myself,’ and supplies it to all the limbs. If it is bitter or tasteless, it throws it out, saying, ‘We do not want this.’
Forbearance is Satya, forbearance is Dharma, forbearance is yoga, forbearance is Ahiṃsā, forbearance is yajña, forbearance is right observance, forbearance is compassion; forbearance itself is the ground of all.
Forbearance belongs to the tongue alone. How? There are 32 sharp teeth. They are like knives. In the midst of them, the tender tongue. If it moves even a little this way or that, it will be cut.
We must become worthy of God's grace
Among such wicked ones the soft tongue lives. You must live in that way. Even among the wicked, you must live like the tongue. You must live as Vibhīṣaṇa lived among the rākṣasas. Because the tongue has this forbearance, it comes to no harm however long it lasts. But our teeth are the very first to fall. Those wicked ones fall first. The tongue, which has calm, stays the same for ever. More than that, it is a very dignified tongue. It does not roam from one room to another like a cat or a rat. Whatever words come, however great the danger, even when joy comes, it keeps to its own place and does not come out. It never leaves its house and doorway to come out. However much you talk, at any time, the tongue does not come out. It keeps its dignity. We must keep that dignity. We must win such a Nobel Prize. If we want to receive that Nobel Prize, we must gain Prema for God. We must become worthy of God's grace. We must deepen our bond of kinship with God.