In plain words
For giving us every power needed for a life that is eternal, true and lasting, what tax do we pay? On top of that, we revile Him: "O God, You did not give me that, You did not give me this." In return for help we do harm. For what has been given we do not pay the tax. And to long for more, saying He has not yet given it: what greed this is! As this greed grows, bad qualities grow too, and as the bad qualities grow, arrogance grows.
Greed, arrogance and bad qualities are not man's natural qualities. Calm, forbearance and sympathy: these alone are man's chief qualities. Truly, man must live content. Man today is left without any contentment at all. There is no satisfaction whatsoever. Once upon a time a devotee had a vision of Nārāyaṇa. Nārāyaṇa, why did You create this Mount Meru? You created a mountain of gold. O God, You make all the forests grow and bestow the life-force on men. All the trees take in the carbon dioxide man breathes out and give out oxygen. You create the mountains. You hold back the passing clouds and make the rain fall.
With the crescent of the moon sparkling on His crown, with a mass of lovely matted locks, with the shine of the heavenly river flowing in those locks, with the splendid eye upon His brow, with His throat dark as the black jambu fruit, with a serpent bracelet on His wrist, with an elephant's hide wrapped round His waist, with sacred ash smeared all over His body, with a large kuṅkuma mark drawn on His forehead, with lips reddened by betel, with ear-ornaments of gleaming gold and diamond, … with a gaze, putting the dark lilies to shame and carrying off their beauty, with a body of gleaming dusky hue.