In plain words
Take my body to our capital, set my hands raised up, wrap a white cloth round this body, and take it in procession street by street,’ he said. Then the minister asked, ‘When, as you have told us, we tie the two hands to sticks and raise them, wrap a white cloth round this body, and take it in procession, and all the people ask, “Why have they put Alexander's hands up so high, why could they not put them down?”, what answer are we to give?’ he said. ‘“Alexander conquered many kingdoms. He gathered heaps of wealth, crores upon crores, as much as he wanted. He raised as big an army as he wanted. Yet in the end, at the time of leaving the body and going, he went with empty hands”: proclaim that,’ he said. However rich, however mighty, even emperors cannot escape leaving this body. For us too, if not today, then some day, that state will come. But what we must take with us, and what we must give to the world, is the true path. Living a life of morality and honesty, we must make the effort to hand on, as we go, good qualities that show the way to those who come in the future. None of these things is lasting. Our good qualities alone are lasting. Even when the man is gone, the qualities stand alive. Precisely because they live on alive like this, in our Bhārata the names of many maharṣis, the names of many sādhus and saints, the names of many great renunciants who showed the way, such as Jayadeva, Gaurāṅga, Tukārām, Rāmakṛṣṇa Paramahaṃsa, move about in this world even today in Bhārata, alive, like shining stars of a kind. Every single person who has earned a good name stays in sāyujya in the very presence of God Himself, forgets his own life completely in happiness, and with the feeling of sālokya experiences Saccidānanda in his life.
Students! Giving sorrow to no one, plunging no one into adversity, humiliating no one, we must make the effort to bring our lives to their close with sacred words, sacred ways, sacred conduct.