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In plain words

"When the branch of a coconut palm dries up and falls off, only a mark is left. From that mark one can tell that a branch of the palm was once there. In the same way, in one who has attained God only a mark of the ego remains, only the outward form of lust and anger. He becomes like a child. No single guna, whether sattva, rajas or tamas, keeps a firm hold on a child. A child takes no longer to let go of a thing than to take hold of it. You can coax a five-rupee cloth out of him with a doll worth half a pice. But at first he will hold on tight and say, 'No, I won't give it. My father bought it for me.' And to a child everyone is the same; he has no sense that this one is great and that one small. So he makes no distinction of caste. Once his mother has told him, 'He is your elder brother,' he will sit down and eat from the same plate, even if the other is a carpenter. A child has no disgust, no sense of clean and unclean. He goes to the privy and does not wash his hands with earth.