In plain words
When there is a heap of embers at the root of the smoke, when there is a driver who runs the railway train, when even the automatic light has its limits, must there not be One to create Prakṛti?
Through time all things come about, the good and the bad; through time come the comings and goings of plenty and of want; time itself, looked at and weighed, is the cause in every way; on this earth there is not one man whom time does not bring low.
Embodiments of …!
Time is the form of God. One of God's names is Saṃvatsara. Because He … this very time as His own Ātma, He has another name, Kālātmaka. God is the one who protects the wise. The wise man … is not one who passes his life by cleverness and by clever schemes. He who turns the … of his Buddhi upon God, he who has made it flow toward God, is the wise man. He alone is truly wise who makes the powers of the Buddhi … to him flow toward God. … has yet another name. Turning time like a wheel, He stood as the beginning in the times of the Kṛta yuga, the Tretā yuga, the Dvāpara … yugas and the rest; so He has the name Yuga Ādi. God is not only the beginning of the … but the end of the yugas as well. That is why His … name is Yugādikṛt. Because He keeps everything within Himself and protects the world, His … name is Kāla Darpa. We take Ugādi to mean some new year or other. It is nothing but God's …. The whole universe is bound by time. It is held fast. It is pervaded …, it is created. It is destroyed. That is why the greatness of time … no one at all can describe. He is the form of time. His name is Saṃvatsaraḥ.
In holy Bhārata, so as to recognise the sacredness of time and live by it, the … people of those days went on making time worthwhile. In every object, they would think… of its beauty and charm alone …; they took up only the spiritual sense present …, and they were people who … their lives as an offering to its greatness alone.