In plain words
When that ash goes, the fire can be seen. When cool winds blow, the clouds move away. The sun can be seen. The sun has not newly come into being. In the same way, if you clear away the moss that covered the top, the water can be seen. If you remove the film in the eye, sight comes back. In the same way, the three that have enveloped man, attachment, hatred and Ahaṅkāra, are making him forget the divinity that is called humanity. If we put away these, attachment, hatred and Ahaṅkāra, our divinity reveals itself to us.
Bhārata has been giving the people teachings of this kind. In ancient times Sanskrit was known to everyone. As time went on, in Bhārata the Sanskrit language itself sank away. All the histories of Bhārata and all its commentaries lie in Sanskrit alone. No one can rob the culture of Bhārata in any way. Today we forget such a culture, toil in a culture that is nothing at all, and forget our divinity, our svarūpa. Worldly desires keep growing. Desires that belong to the inner feeling keep dwindling. First of all we should bring forth the inner feeling. What is outward is momentary.
Students! You are young. In your youth many waves, ripples and layers keep arising. That is why Śaṅkara said it. "Mā kuru dhanajana yavvana garvaṃ, harati nimeṣā kālaḥ sarvaṃ." What is the pride of youth? It is something that comes in the middle and goes in the middle. It is something that moves away in half a minute. Such a thing we take to be permanent. The Ānanda that is permanent we take to be momentary. It is not so. All the learning we learn should go together with saṃskāras. In Kāśī Śaṅkara set out with his disciples for the bath. An old paṇḍita was reciting "ḍukṛñ karaṇe". Śaṅkara heard it. What is this mad learning? What is this grammar? What help of any kind is "ḍukṛñ karaṇe" giving? It gives no help at all. You mad man! You believe this alone will lift you up.
Worship Govinda, worship Govinda, worship Govinda, O foolish mind! When the appointed time draws near, "ḍukṛñ karaṇe" will not, will not save you.
O mad man! What is this "ḍukṛñ karaṇe"? What will it save you from? In what danger will it save you? It will not save you.