In plain words
One who has given in to the enemies within: how can he capture the foes outside?
We are giving in to the enemies within. We cannot catch the enemies outside at all. First of all we must push out the enemies within. The only fitting path for this is the spiritual path. On the spiritual path we can easily conquer the senses. Learning that cannot master the senses is useless learning. We are toiling merely for our daily bread. Toil is for food. Education is for knowledge. Education must not be for food. But all of today's education is just for filling the belly.
To fill a belly one span wide, suffering troubles, learning a crore of arts with great resolve, and unable to attain full happiness, why should this human race waste away in sorrows? The Supreme, Śrī Parātpara: will He not show the way to the devotees who meditate on Him, O man? ‘I have read the books, I have looked through all the śāstras completely, I have learned peerless arts,’ so you say: why this pride? If, joining your two hands, you do not worship the Paramātma with Bhakti, all these present-day learnings are illusion, worthless on this earth, O man. From waking out of sleep until you go to sleep again, for the belly, spending without bound or reckoning, you pour your life out on learning and forget the lotus-eyed Lord: what great happiness have you gained? Think it over with care, O man!
From daybreak until we lie down at night, every now and then, pānīyaṃ samarpayāmi. We struggle so much for the sake of the belly. But what have we achieved? Beasts, birds and animals too struggle in just the same way for the same belly we struggle for. They are better off still. Then what is the use of learning in some special way? To which university did those animals go? What degrees did they take? To what foreign countries are they going? They do none of these things. But for the one called man, education is indeed needed to nurture the special Vijñāna, Prajñāna and Sujñāna. Having learned all these, we must take up the knowledge that discerns. Even within this discrimination there must be discrimination with proper Viveka. Today discrimination power is very high indeed. This knowledge has grown greatly. But Viveka keeps dwindling to nothing. Only when there is Viveka to match knowledge can we put that knowledge to good use.