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In plain words

"A man is once made pure by the Name, but straight afterwards, perhaps, he is caught up in all kinds of sin. He has no strength of mind; he does not vow, 'I will sin no more.' Bathing in the Ganges washes all sins away, they say. But what good is that? People say the sins wait up in the trees. When the man comes back from his bath in the Ganges, those old sins jump down from the tree onto his shoulders." Everyone laughed. "The same old sins are on his shoulders again. He has hardly gone two steps from his bath, and they are up on his shoulders again!