In plain words
Loss and growth do not fail to come, though one hide in the great forest; the body does not fail to go, however one nourish and guard it.
However many ways were tried to keep Vairāgya from coming to the Buddha, Vairāgya came to the Buddha, He left home and He became one who had renounced all attachment.
Students! Our life is not a life made of food. Ours is a life made of the Ātma. The one who thinks that life is only what is made of food is ignorant. The one who thinks that the life made of the Ātma alone is life is wise. Rantideva said, Svāmī! The one who longs only for a life made of food is a sinner. The one who longs for a life made of the Ātma is a gopī! Kṛṣṇa Caitanya went to Jagannātha of Purī. He was a fine young man. He spoke to Jagannātha in this way: ‘Jagannātha! You are not merely Lord of the world. You are Lord of the universe. You are Lord of life. You are Lord of the living being. You are Lord of this body. You are Lord of the whole world itself. You can do anything. I do not long for the strength of yoga. I have no need of the strength of muscle. I have no need of the strength of the Ātma. The strength of Your Prema alone is true strength to me,’ he said. The strength of Prema alone is true strength. All strengths are weaknesses, he said; so what we must ask of God is the strength of Prema, that one alone. If the strength of Prema alone is there, all strengths are gained. What we must ask for is not wealth. We must ask for Hari. What we must long for is not Lakṣmī but the Lord of Lakṣmī. The great king is not the one who has heaped up wealth in piles. The one who has renounced all attachment is the great king. In North India, when people see sādhus and sannyāsīs, they keep addressing them as Mahārāj, Mahārāj. Their meaning is that those who have renounced all attachment are the great kings. True enjoyment is not wallowing in riches and wealth. To spend one's time in the love of God and the thought of God is the true yoga.
A bank cashier has a great deal of money with him. Bundles upon bundles of notes are in his keeping. But it is not his money. In the same way, what we give is ours, but what we take is not ours. Tyāgenaike amṛtatvam ānasuḥ. It is in tyāga alone that we find true immortality. So Caitanya, saying the twelve-syllable mantra itself is my true life: nā-ku-di-kku-bha-ga-vaṃ-tu-ḍu-o-kka-ḍē, God alone is my refuge. This is the dvādaśākṣara mantra, the mantra of twelve syllables. He alone dwells in my heart. For, ‘mamātmā sarvabhūtāntarātma’, He said. My Ātma itself is in all beings as the Ātma. He alone is the Lord of the heart. He Himself is Puruṣottama. Puruṣottama simply means that the very one who moves through the body from the nails to the crown of the head is Puruṣottama. Pura means the body. He has been guarding in every way the city called the body, nourishing it and keeping it safe in every way. But we must not think that this Puruṣottama is only in the body, only in the body of three and a half cubits.