In plain words
We must make body, mind and speech one. ‘Paropakārārthamidaṃ śarīram.’ ‘Paropakārāya phalanti vṛkṣaḥ.’ Trees give their fruits for the good of others. When a tree gives fruit today, we must recognise what its state was before. When we put a seed in the ground, that seed breaks up its own form, comes up as a sapling, grows into a tree and gives fruit. Even when its enemy comes near it, the tree gives him cool shade and sweet fruit. Trees have no hatred, no envy. What is the reason? It has killed its attachment to the body. It has broken up the form of that seed. Only then did it become a tree. In the same way, only when we put attachment to the body far away does true tyāga begin in us. Today, because man is bound by these attachments alone, attachment to the body, attachment to wealth and the rest, tyāga has gone very far away.
The body has come only for the good of others!
‘Paropakārāya vahanti nadyaḥ’: the rivers flow. But they do not swallow even a mouthful of their own water themselves. They fill all the tanks, give the people water to drink and to raise their crops, and go on doing good. ‘Paropakārāya duhantigāvaḥ.’ For the good of others, milk grows in the cows. They do not drink even a single drop of their own milk themselves. All of it is for the good of others! Today the trees have tyāga and paropakāra. Today the rivers have tyāga and paropakāra. The cattle have tyāga and paropakāra. In man, who has so much intelligence, has studied so many kinds of learning, holds so much authority and has won fame and standing, this intelligence and this tyāga are not there at all.