In plain words
Through the transient body we must try to recognise the Ātma, which is eternal and real
This body has three states. One: vāta, pitta and śleṣma. Vāta brings on eighty kinds of disease in the body of every man. Pitta causes eighty-two kinds of illness in this body. Śleṣma brings about two hundred and twenty-four illnesses. All these together make three hundred and eighty-six kinds of illness present in man. Why such infatuation with this body, beset with so many illnesses? All the great sages of those days recognised well the nature of the body, gave up their infatuation with it, and step by step, for as long as it lasted, went on looking after its welfare. What is illness? It is not the illness that can be seen! Some people live in comfort. They are like pakoḍās. They are like road rollers. Illnesses do not show. But thirst too is an illness. Hunger too is an illness! Movement is an illness! Breathing in and breathing out is illness, words are illness, games are illness, walks are illness, laughs are illness: all of it is illness! Do not laugh too much. The heart gives way. With that very laughter the heart gives way. So, which is illness, and which is health: no one can say. This body is a basket of illnesses. Not only that. ‘Minute by minute vile things ooze from it, but no civet or musk will ever be born of it; nothing but stinking excrement and urine, flesh and blood, but no civet or musk will ever be born of it.’ This is the nature of man's body. ‘The body is made of the five elements; the body must fall, sooner or later.’ It is a thing that collapses and burns away. But the indweller is that which remains eternal and real. Through the transient body we must try to recognise the Ātma, which is eternal and real.
The Ānanda of living beings is itself the Ānanda of God
For the comforts that concern the body we toil in many ways. But do we give any thought at all to the Ānanda of the indweller? You scramble for this happiness of yours, for your own comfort, but what is the contentment of the indweller, the contentment of God, the wish of God, the aim of God: this no man inquires into.