In plain words
What did he bring when he came, what will he take when he goes, at his birth, and again at his death? Where does the wealth go, where does he himself go? Tell it yourselves, sirs, and I will grant it.
Can anyone say? No. We know that this will never come with us. Why then should we toil so much for its sake? Live in happiness as long as you live. Out of what you have, you must give in charity and do good. If we go on adding to it day by day, when will Vairāgya ever come to us? Vairāgya does not mean giving up everything.
It is not leaving property and wife to go off to the forest; giving up the mean feeling in the mind is tyāga, and that itself is yoga.
We must not fall prey to greed. Greed brings only sorrow. Content with what we have, putting what we have into good works, fostering the feeling of tyāga, we must develop faith in God. This is the true yajña. To give such teachings, Emperor Janaka in those days kept performing many yāgas and yajñas. There is a great difference between the yajñas of those days and the yajñas of today. These are yajñas performed with pomp. Those were yajñas done for the Ānanda of the Ātma. Not only to those who performed them but to those who watched too, this principle of the Ātma used to be taught in a way they could understand. You must offer the citta to God. You must make the citta pure. To pray, “Make this citta right,” is the true prayer.