In plain words
We have so many vehicles. There is the bicycle. There is the scooter. There is the motorcycle, there is the car, there is the bus, and there may be many other kinds of carriages, and bullock carts too. But to keep cleaning these all the time, put in the oil and petrol each one needs, and see that it is in proper condition: among our daily tasks, that stands as a bounden duty. In the very same way, the body is a chariot. Just as we wipe the bicycle and the car, put in petrol and oil, wipe them again and keep them in proper condition, in the very same way, this vehicle called the body, which has come about for the journey of our life, we must clean from time to time, give the food it should be given and keep in good condition: that alone we must see to rightly; but if we forget life itself, keep decorating this, keep putting petrol into this alone and keep laying on polish all over it all the time, what is the use of having a chariot? In this there is one more thing, too, that we must think about. Thinking that if we sit in the car and drive we can go anywhere, we travel by car on ways where the roads are bad, and so we keep falling into troubles. When we drive the car to a place with no road, or up a hill, or into a river, to places where a car should not go, we have to suffer a great deal of trouble and loss. In the very same way, by sending this chariot called our body along paths it should not take, to places it should not be sent, we have to suffer not only blame and harsh words but trouble and loss as well. Just as, when we get our car stuck in a muddy place, we have to ask for so many kinds of help, in just the same way, when we drive the chariot of life into the mud called saṃsāra and get stuck in it, we have to ask for the help called satsaṅga, the help called the grace of the elders. So, since we are embodied, we need only see to some safety for this frame called the body, so that no harm comes to the chariot called the body and no obstacle of any kind arises on the journey, for the sake of reaching the sacred place; but it is best to set out on the journey of life in this world keeping our eye only on where we have to reach.