In plain words
For everything, God alone is the support. All else is illusion! Hardship or loss, sorrow or disease, whatever comes, think, ‘All of it is God's will.’ Then everything will surely be well for you. You say, ‘This is my body.’ Then who are you? You say ‘my body’, but you do not say ‘the body is I’, do you! Likewise you say, ‘my mind’. So the mind is one thing, and you are another. When asked, ‘What is your name?’, do not say ‘My name is Rāma’ or ‘My name is Kṛṣṇa’. Say, ‘I am I.’ Your name was given by your parents; it is not something you brought. There is nothing at all that you brought. So nothing is your property. ‘I’ alone is your property. That is why you use the word ‘I’ for everything. Attachment begins with thinking, “This is my house,” “These are my people.” When you think ‘I’ with the feeling of the body, Ahaṅkāra comes in. Remove these two, the Ahaṅkāra that says ‘I’ and the attachment that says ‘mine’, and you yourself are God. When Ahaṅkāra and attachment are both gone, you are yourself! When you lead your life without this ‘I’ and ‘mine’, you will enjoy boundless happiness. May you all live long; live together in harmony, with Prema.
Together in harmony let us grow, together in harmony let us go about; together in harmony let us nurture the understanding we have gained; together in harmony, free of discord, let us live in friendship.
With one finger we cannot do any work. Only when all five fingers come together can we do any work. Likewise, if there are differences between one and another, no work gets done at all.
Once, so the story goes, the five fingers argued among themselves, ‘Which of us is great?’ The middle finger, full of ego: “I am bigger than all of you. I have two ‘body guards’ on this side and two on that side. So I alone am great,” it said. Then the index finger: “Only when I point out that this work must be done can you do the work.