In plain words
In the same way, whatever kinds of difficulty come to us in this world, whatever kinds of hardship we fall into, whatever kinds of unrest we are subjected to, however many kinds of road we walk on our path, that is, even when we enter these paths called brahmacarya, gṛhastha, vānaprastha and sannyāsa, we must keep our aim, our destination, on the one Ātma alone.
Here is another example of this. After these summer classes are over, on the 22nd and 23rd, you are going from here, each to your own village. Midway along the road you travel, you may stop at a rest house. For a while you may wait, for a train or for something else. When you stop at that rest house, the officer of that rest house, or whoever is incharge, may question you: ‘Who are you, sir? Where have you come from? Where are you going? How many days will you stay?’ And you, in reply: ‘I am so-and-so; I have come from Bangalore. I am going to Delhi’: to say this comes naturally. In the same way, we have come today into the mortal world of human beings, and we are staying for a rest in the rest house called Prakṛti. The Veda: ‘Who are you? Where have you come from? Where are you going?’ it keeps asking. Then, when you say, ‘I am So-and-so Rāmayya,’ or ‘So-and-so Kṛṣṇayya,’ this Rāmayya, this Kṛṣṇayya did not come here. Rāmayya, Kṛṣṇayya is the name the parents gave. Or, as for your saying ‘I have come from Delhi, I have come from Bombay’: when this body was born, it did not come from Delhi into the mother's womb; it did not come from Bombay and enter the mother's womb. You must find out where you have come from. You may well have come from the place you lived in after you were born, but for this birth, where did you come from? So while such questions are being put to us, we sit blinking our eyes, in a state where we cannot say where we have come from, and where we will go next.