In plain words
Make it a bed of fine camphor, heap fragrant musk on it for manure, raise it on good rose water poured out: will the onion give up its own stink?
Students!
If humanness is to thrive and divinity is to shine forth, you must first of all develop the strength of the body, of the mind and of the spirit. Human birth has not come merely to live a physical, worldly, material life. The experiences you long for, cattle, birds, beasts and the rest are enjoying too, all the time. Then what is special in humanness? ‘Jantūnāṃ narajanma durlabhaṃ.’ Rare in what? The food you eat, cattle eat too. The splendours you desire, cattle, birds and beasts desire too. The love of kin you desire, cattle, birds and beasts desire too. Then why these studies of yours? What is the Vijñāna these studies bring? What is the Prajñāna? What is the Sujñāna? This is only for the belly's bread. This is not the chief mark of humanness. This is not man's goal.
Food, Brahman and Ānanda Are Bound Together
We must recognise where humanness came from: that home of its own, that svarūpa of its own. ‘Karmānubandhīni manuṣyaloke.’ Man here lives bound up with Dharma and karma.