In plain words
The power of wealth, the power of office, all of these are of no use for winning Bhakti and Mukti; so too the wealth of learning, at any time; the power of God alone brings one to the shore.
Teachers! Students!
The world of the moving and the unmoving is filled with four kinds of beings, called aṇḍaja, piṇḍaja, svedaja and udbhijja.
Aṇḍaja means those that come forth from eggs. That is, birds, snakes, scorpions, fish, frogs, and worms and insects too, all come under these aṇḍajas. All the creatures that come forth from these eggs exist as twenty-one lakh species. Piṇḍaja means those that come forth from the womb. The rat, the cat, the monkey, the dog, the beast, man: all these. These beings that come forth from the womb exist as twenty-one lakh species. Svedaja means those born of man's sweat. These are not from man's sweat alone; such sweat arises in cattle, birds and beasts too. All the living things born through such sweat exist as twenty-one lakh kinds of creatures. These are the louse, the bug and the like. Udbhijja means the beings that are born by breaking up through the earth. These are born from seeds. The trees, the crops, all these come under these alone. All these exist as twenty-one lakh kinds of beings. All these together are spread through the world as eighty-four lakh species. Among all these beings, human life is the most excellent, the highest.
For lifting oneself up, this humanness is the best suited. This humanness has the strength and the capacity to recognise the past, the future and the present and to act by them. That is why: daivaṃ mānuṣarūpeṇā. God too has come taking on this sacred, ideal humanness. Yet, having such intelligence, having the knowledge of discernment, having Viveka, man is unable to recognise his own principle, his own svarūpa. What is the reason for this? No effect can take place in the world without a cause. The fruit of the sinful deeds and the meritorious deeds done through many births is itself the root cause of what these people experience.