In plain words
Once the five elements leave, we throw away the ‘bag’, now ‘empty’. So we must form no bond with the body. Every mother and every son must live in this spirit. As long as they are with us we must treat our parents with honour, respect and love, and keep them happy. But once the body has gone, there is no need to grieve over it. Here too (in Puttaparthi), “How can this be? Swami has sent only Easwaramma's body. Swami did not come with the body!” they were saying. What was I to do, coming along with the body?! The body is a mere vehicle, a bag of leather. Once the five elements left, the body was gone. The five elements have gone back into the five elements. Why grieve over that?! So I had all the rites that the world requires performed here. I stayed there and held the summer classes happily. All the ties and relationships our body has in this world come about only because we make them up ourselves; otherwise, what relation is there between one and another! It is only from attachment to the body that we say, ‘This is my mother.’ The body is mother to the body. But I have no relation of any kind with the body. She came, she did her karma and she went. I resolved, ‘Now I must do My own work.’ Seen with the eye of the world, it was a body made of the five elements.
The body is made of the five elements; the body must fall, at some time or other; the indweller is free of all ill; consider it well: for the indweller there is no death or birth; look at the truth, and he bears no stamp of the bonds of attachment; that indweller is the God of gods; consider it in your mind: he is the very form of the Ātma!
So we must look at the indweller, not at the body. Every man forgets his body as soon as he sleeps. When you forget it in sleep itself, why not forget the body for good? Even so, as long as they are with us, we must not neglect our parents in the least. We must look after them, love them in every way and honour them. After you marry, you say, ‘This is my wife.’ Where did the wife come from?