In plain words
All the relatives come as far as the doorway, and even to the burial ground; the friend in need who breaks your bonds and never leaves you is the Name of the Lord alone!
Do not set about strutting, relying on your strength and ability, on your youth, or on your wealth, gold, possessions, vehicles and the like.
Do not strut, brother, because you have beauty, youth and the strength of the senses; ahead of you, and soon enough, lies the crocodiles' feast called old age...
So, relying on all these, we must not set about wasting our life in the world, in one way or another, in Ahaṅkāra. We must keep in mind what the future holds, enter the path of Satya, and count it the best thing to win true friendship. To win such a friend, true and eternal, we must make a fitting effort at this very age. When many very small children, at this very age, are doing bhajans, prayers or sādhanas, many elders: ‘Hey! You crazy fellow! What do you want with Bhakti and Vairāgya at so young an age? Take a job, carry the burdens of family life, and then, once you are old, after you retire, you can sit and read the Bhagavad Gītā, go to the elders and hear their teachings, things like that,’ so they advise them at length. But if you do not do it today, will it be possible then, at that age? Or will such a sacred feeling come to you then? It will never come. So only when we do it from today can such good feelings grow in us by then. With the very thought that terrible wars may come to the country at any time, it is quite usual to put very young men into the military and give them some training. If instead, the moment a war came, you handed swords and guns to all the little children, what could they do? If some training has been given well beforehand, then whatever comes about, there is a chance to join in and face it. So the good deeds done in a lifetime will be our ideal at the end.