In plain words
'… my child! Out of so many studies, what have you studied? Tell me just once,' said the father, Hiraṇyakaśipu. 'Father! … …nārāyaṇāya,' he said. What study is needed beyond that? In this way, however many studies we study, we see to our own keep in … …. However much you earn, whatever offices you hold, … whatever name and fame you gain, some day or other this body is but a bubble on water.
He who ruled the earth in the ever-firm strength of Satya, Hari- -ścandra: dharabāpi, could he not go? The glorious King Nala, who ruled all the worlds and shone: did he go taking the earth along with him? Māndhātā, who adorned the Kṛta Yuga: did he depart with nīrimūṭa tied up? Śrī Rāma of old, who bridged the ocean: ḍurvissai: does he live now? How many, many kings have gone! Not one of them takes the face of the earth along.
If … had taken a fistful of earth, even the earth in Bhārata would have become nil. So for what is … … we toil so hard. See. To cross the English Channel, though the whales … … are …fearsome, we cross with courage and daring; but in that same eternal spiritual principle … … in …, if something stands in the way in loss, we give in to it. To go up Mount Everest … … …. He went up Everest, but what is the fruit? If … … thinking of God for some five minutes, you say you want rest. On the divine path that gives Ānanda, eternal Satya, we must make our … … fulfilled all the more. Study. Pass in a good class. … do jobs. Earn fame and renown. However much you do, keep the feeling of God safe in … …. Without that feeling of God, all is useless.
Hero becomes zero if he forgets God. If there is a zero, the hero gets value. Hero … … the zero gets value. Hero and zero, the two: each to the other an inseparable relation. A nought, put… …, but without a one beside it, has no value. The hero is there. There is a one. If you put a zero beside it, value … …. Without Hero the zero has no value. Without the zero Hero has no value. Without God there is no devotee; … … there is no God.