In plain words
I have a body that has wasted away. I am a man without limbs. Though I have all my limbs, You may make some fun of me for calling myself a man without limbs. I have limbs. What use are they? Hands that are of no use for Your service are as good as none. I have eyes. They are like cotton pods. They see the world. They cannot see You. So though I have eyes, I am blind. I have ears, Rāmacandra. They are like the caves in a mountain. Into these caves only dogs and jackals come; nothing sacred comes into them at all. I have a tongue like a frog's. Like a frog's tongue it is always flicking, but for what? It is its nature. But it does not make Your Name dance upon it! What use is it to have such a tongue? So I have all my limbs. But they take no part in Your service. So I am a man without limbs," he said. In the same way Tyāgarāja too said: why have eyes, why have eyes that do not see Rāma!
At this level Tulasīdās and this Tyāgarāja both followed one and the same path. In such things Tulasīdās went a step further. Truly, it is not usual for any man to speak of the faults or the weaknesses in himself. But Tulasīdās poured out to God all the weaknesses that were in him. "I have committed such sins. Knowing it, I took part in many kinds of wickedness. Though I knew that You are in every jīva, I related to others as kith and kin. So forgive all these sins, make me pure in the right way and take me into Yourself," he prayed.
Besides this: Rāmacandra! Now that I have come to know You, I do not want this world. Will the bee that sips the nectar of the hibiscus flower rush off to the flowers of the thorn apple? Will the royal swans that move on the heavenly Gaṅgā be drawn to dirty drains? Will the koels that eat the sweet mango blossom and the tender leaf and sing sweetly hanker after wild jasmine? Not only this. Will one who has gladly drunk honey take a liking to the bitter? Will one who eats soft dates hanker after tamarind?