In plain words
All these pass away in a moment! Is it this happiness we want? All these are like passing clouds. This joy too is only a passing joy! I have said it many times. Śaṅkara too went on teaching the same. Why say again what has been said? The children may think that Swami keeps saying the same things. I am asking one question. Why do you eat for the stomach that has already eaten? Why do you wash the face that has already been washed? It is the one face, is it not? Yet every day we must wash it three times. It is the stomach that has already eaten, is it not? Why must we eat three times? How many sacks of rice you have eaten, how many sacks you are yet to eat, you yourselves do not know.
To fill a belly a span long, enduring troubles, a crore of skills you learn with all your zeal, and failing to gain full happiness, why should this human race languish in sorrows? To the devotees who meditate on Śrī Parātpara, does He fail to show the way, O man!
We spend who knows how many sacks, but this span-long belly is never full. So we must say the same things again and digest them, put the essence we have digested into practice, and through that gain Ānanda. So Śaṅkara:
Do not be proud of wealth, of people, of youth; time takes all away in a moment; giving up all this, which is made of Māyā, and knowing, enter the state of Brahman. Bhaja govindaṃ......
Study Not Put into Practice Only Wastes Time!
However long it may be, our conversations keep ending, always, in the things of the world alone. How many degrees we take, how many doctorate degrees we gain! How many books we read! How many things we learn! What is the use? To what extent have you put it into practice?