In plain words
The water never changes. The Ātma principle, which is divinity, is always pure through and through, sacred through and through. When it enters a body bound up with rajoguṇa, it looks red. When this Ātma enters a man who has tamoguṇa, it looks black. The Ātma that enters a man with a sāttvic heart is sacred and looks pure. None of these colours are the colours of the Ātma. They are the colours of the body the Ātma has entered. As is said in the Bhagavad Gītā, He said, ‘I have created four varṇas.’ He said, ‘Cāturvarṇaṃ mayāsṛṣṭi.’ But our people think it means brāhmaṇa, vaiśya, kṣatriya, śūdra. This is not what varṇa means. Russians are red. The British are somewhat white. The Japanese are somewhat yellow. The Africans are somewhat black. All the other colours merge within these four colours alone.
The Ātma Is Right Within You, as You
Before they eat, children pray to God and then begin their meal. How do they pray?
The offering is Brahman, the oblation is Brahman, offered by Brahman into the fire that is Brahman; Brahman alone is to be reached by him who is absorbed in action that is Brahman.
‘We are offering it to Brahman,’ they say. This Brahman is right inside, is He not? So the answer comes at that very moment. Saying what? ‘I Myself am digesting it.’ I Myself, being within, protect you in many ways. I eat in four ways. One is swallowing, the second chewing, the third sucking, the fourth softening it.
Becoming Vaiśvānara, I dwell in the bodies of living beings; joined with prāṇa and apāna, I digest food of the four kinds.
‘I Myself am in you in the form of Vaiśvānara,’ He said. Otherwise, who is digesting what goes into your stomach?