In plain words
He went to every sweet shop. ‘Sir! I must taste the sweets,’ he said. He put a little in his mouth. Saying, ‘It is salty, it is not right,’ he passed by five or six shops. The sixth shopkeeper saw clearly how things were with him. He went up to him and said, ‘I shall see how your sweets are and then buy.’ That sweet-shop man said, ‘There is a tap right opposite. First wash your mouth and come! Then I will give you a taste of the laḍḍu.’ He went there and cleaned his mouth well. He threw away the lump of salt that was in his mouth and then tasted the laḍḍu. It was sweet. ‘This laḍḍu is good,’ he said. Then the laḍḍu-shop man says, ‘Silly fellow! If you eat sweets with salt in your mouth, will they taste sweet? They will taste only of salt.’ In the same way, today, when people in whom the disease called atheism has broken out keep a bitter lump within, however many kinds of sweets they eat, they taste only bitter. Keeping bad qualities, evil designs and wicked thoughts within themselves, even when they hear names or words that are sweet and dear to God, these taste only bitter. They taste only of salt. Is this fault the food's? No, no. It is the defect of the disease in us. A diabetic patient went to a wedding feast. At the feast everyone sat down to eat. They went round serving laḍḍus and jilebis. Among them five or six said, ‘None for us, sir, none for us.’ But he longs to eat, all the same! Inside there is the disease. Because of that disease they say no; it is not that they truly refuse those sweets. In the same way, in this world there are so many: believers, unbelievers, believer-unbelievers and yāstikas. Among them, when love comes to the believers, whatever they take is sweet. To those with no love for God, everything is just wrong. Whatever they eat has no taste at all.
When the diseases called worldly desires enter, spirituality moves far away
As long as they are here, students, teachers or anyone else fill their hearts with sacred feelings. Everything looks good.