In plain words
It is not right, not right, this thirst for wealth, O man; with a good mind give up your desires. Wealth is only the fruit of karma, you know; in whatever you have, find contentment. Hari Govinda, Hari Govinda, say Hari Govinda, you dullard! When death is moving close at hand, neither wealth nor learning will save you. Hari Govinda, Hari Govinda, say Hari Govinda, you dullard!
Longing for Mukti, man keeps pleading with the thirty-three crore gods, but his sorrows do not go. If he kills the ego that is in himself, why seek Mukti? Is he not Mukti himself?
Students!
Man longs for happiness. He thirsts for Ānanda. Night and day, to gain these, he takes pains of many kinds. What man wants is two things, just two desires. The first is the gaining of happiness. The second is the ending of sorrow. But what is the inner meaning of man's seeking happiness and casting off sorrow in this way? There is a scientific truth to this as well. Sweetness to sugar, fragrance to a rose in bloom: these are natural to them. The power to burn to fire, coolness to ice: these are their natural forms. They did not acquire them separately, through some practices or other. In the same way, happiness and Ānanda are man's own natural form. That he longs for his own natural quality: this too is natural. That he longs for his own true form: this too is natural.
Today we forget this naturalness, put our faith in the unnatural, and fall prey to unrest. Divinity forgotten: that is the state of the jīva. Divinity standing as one's very form: that is the state of God. So man falls prey to unrest precisely by forgetting his own true form. In this world we see these natural things everywhere, every day.