In plain words
Once you have sold the house, the house is not mine. You think this body is yours. After death this body is not yours. You think, this shirt is mine, mine. After it is torn, this shirt is not yours. All these are passing clouds. They come. They go. The very name of this world is jagat. Ja means being born, gat means going. That is, being born and going is the mark of the world.
What is yours, what is not yours? Everything is God's. So all through the old days people thought, First God, next world, last I. When we hold God first of all as our aim, we must not reckon with anything. We must never fall prey to the humanness that says I. He Himself will see to it. But today it has turned upside down. First I, next world, last God.
There is a fine illustration of this. The Pāṇḍavas held Kṛṣṇa alone to be the chief one. In the full assembly they gave the first honour to Kṛṣṇa. We do not count our lives. Our embodiment of Dharma, our embodiment of Prema, the embodiment of our all is Kṛṣṇa alone. So, putting Kṛṣṇa in front in the chariot, he stood behind and fought. The Pāṇḍavas fought with Kṛṣṇa in front, so for them there was victory in everything. The Kauravas put themselves first, the army second, and Kṛṣṇa behind. So they met defeat on every path. Dhṛtarāṣṭra asked Sañjaya. 'Sañjaya, you have been to the battlefield and come back! To whom will victory come? To the Pāṇḍavas or to the Kauravas?' he asked. Great king,
Where Kṛṣṇa, the Lord of yoga, is, where Pārtha, the bearer of the bow, is, there are fortune, victory, prosperity and steadfast reverence: so I hold.
'Where the sacred Paramātma is and Arjuna is behind Him, there victory comes,' he said. That is, whoever keeps the Paramātma in front will surely win victory. If one keeps Ahaṅkāra in front and the Paramātma behind, for them there is only defeat. This very thing the Mahābhārata points out well. So in every matter we must remember God first of all. After that, however you carry out your works and your duties, it does not matter. When they asked Kṛṣṇa for help, how did Duryodhana and Arjuna ask? Duryodhana with Ahaṅkāra by Kṛṣṇa's head, Arjuna with devotion and surrender sat at Kṛṣṇa's feet. But when He woke, both asked Kṛṣṇa, 'We want Your help.' 'My army on one side, I on the other: whom do you want?' He asked. 'Kṛṣṇa, You alone are enough for me': at Arjuna asking in this way, Duryodhana was overjoyed.