In plain words
As long as there is attachment to the body, attachment to the Ātma does not arise. Still, you must indeed carry out the duties that belong to the body. But you must not think that this itself is permanent. All these are like passing clouds; they keep changing. Nothing that changes is Satya. Only what does not change is Satya. That itself is cidākāśa, that itself is the form of the Ātma! The Ātma has no particular form of any kind. It can take on whatever form is wanted. A small example: a mother has four sons. One of them comes: “Mother! I want red juice,” he says. Another: “Mother! I want green juice,” he says. The third says he wants black juice, the fourth says he wants white juice. What does a clever mother do? She pours the one juice into a red cup for the first, a green cup for the second, a black cup for the third and a white cup for the fourth. The colours of the cups differ, but the juice is one. All bodies are like cups. The sweet juice called the Ātma within them is one. So we must give up attachment to the body and take up attachment to the Ātma. Bodies change, some day or other. If we grow attached to what changes, we have to fall prey to sorrow.
If sorrow is to be removed, if immortality is to be experienced, we must cast off the delusion of the body. Still, as long as it lasts, we must respect it, serve it and look after it. But afterwards there is no need to think about it, no need to grieve. Why grieve? Ignorance alone is the root of sorrow. When its time runs out the body goes; this ‘cup’ changes. But believe in the Ātma principle within, and experience Ānanda. Jesus taught this very thing above all.
“I am God, I am God ...”
A great soul who lived many hundreds of years ago kept saying all the time, “I am God, I am God.” People took him for a madman. Some pandits bore hatred toward him. “Even we, who have learnt so many branches of learning, do not claim to be gods!