In plain words
I am a sweet dish. I was fit to be made an offering to God. But the moment I had contact with a man, this fate befell me. If it happens a second time, what fate will befall me! Go far away. All this is the reaction, reflection, resound of what happened with man; it is not what came about with God,’ said the excrement.
We Must Recognise the Body as the Temple of God
As the Association is, so we turn out. Put mango pickle or gōṅgūra in a jug, and it stays unspoilt the whole year. Put the same mango pickle into the body in the morning, and by evening it is spoilt. Not only that; you will have seen this. There is a flour mill. If you put wheat in at the top, wheat flour comes out. If you put rice in at the top, rice flour comes out. If you put lentils in at the top, lentil flour comes out. But put a sweet laḍḍu into this flour mill called the body, and by the next day it has turned into excrement. So the flour mill is better than the body, the jug is better. The body is baser than these. But why do we give this body so much honour? In it the Ātma moves about from the nails to the crown of the head. ‘Dehodevālaya...’ We must recognise the body as the temple of God. We must not think that the body itself is what matters. What use to us is a temple without God? God is in the temple. I am offering it for God alone. On the day we develop that sacred feeling, on that very day our body, Manas, Buddhi, citta, senses and antaḥkaraṇa become fulfilled. We must turn all this attachment to the body into attachment to the Ātma. That is the sādhana we must do. Bhajan and the like must stay until we come to that stage! We planted a mango tree of a good strain. It bore fruit. As long as it is unripe fruit, it stays sour. Once it becomes ripe, sweetness comes. In the same way, when you too come to that state of ripeness, that feeling of the Ātma will come. Until then, step by step, in daily life, you must go on doing your respective duties.