In plain words
Every doubt in man is being cleared away. To have those doubts cleared away and be satisfied, all the people are going there,’ they said. Oho! I too am that doubting Thomas. So I too must go and have my doubts cleared away: thinking this, he put on a disguise. He too sat in that great soul's gathering. He listened to all the teachings he gave. It was a great joy. But once the meeting was over, everyone went off home, each his own way. He alone stayed sitting right there. But this great soul rose to go, but his shawl caught on a corner of the chair and tore. At once he went himself and got a needle and thread. Sitting down, he was trying very hard to get the thread into the needle. The king beside him, in disguise, said, ‘That one is old and it has torn; here, I have brought a new one, put it on.’ ‘I do not need your new shawl. If you mean to help me that much, thread this needle and give it to me,’ he said. He threaded the needle and gave it to him. That great soul stitched up the torn shawl. Then he said: Man is ever living dependent on others. He must not be dependent on others. He must, though, be dependent on God. But to take the help of a fellow man is a strange thing. I am under a vow. I do not like to lean on a fellow man and take his help. I must achieve a life of my own: the moment he said this, all of this king's doubts were cleared. We need not take refuge in anyone. Believing firmly in our own Ātma principle, we can achieve any task, however great, through faith in the Ātma. God alone is the root cause of everything, he thought. He went home. He was consulting no one. He held no talks of any kind with anyone. Whatever seemed to him clearly true, that truth he went on following well. In every task the habit of weighing what is lasting and what is passing grew in him. That is, a life dependent on others is not good, he said. That swami told him one more thing about this. ‘Sir! One who is full of wisdom and has experience of Ātma-jñāna, but cannot practise these, is like a donkey that travels bearing dirty clothes,’ he said.